3rd Engineer Regiment (Italy)

The 3rd Engineer Regiment (3° Reggimento Genio Guastatori) is a military engineer regiment of the Italian Army based in Udine in Friuli Venezia Giulia. Today the regiment is the engineer unit of the Cavalry Brigade "Pozzuolo del Friuli".

Current structure


As of 2019 the 3rd Engineer Regiment consists of:


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 * 5th Command and Logistic Support Company
 * Sappers Battalion "Verbano"
 * 8th Deployment Support Company
 * 30th Mobility Support Company
 * 31st Sappers Company
 * 32nd Sappers Company

The Command and Logistic Support Company fields the following platoons: C3 Platoon, Transport and Materiel Platoon, Medical Platoon, Commissariat Platoon, and EOD Platoon. Each of the two sapper companies fields a Command Platoon, an Advanced Combat Reconnaissance Teams Platoon, and two sapper platoons. The Deployment Support Company and Mobility Support Company field the battalion's heavy military engineering vehicles: Biber bridgelayers, Dachs armored engineer vehicles, cranes, excavators, Medium Girder Bridges etc. The sapper companies and Command and Logistic Support Company are equipped with VTLM "Lince" and VTMM "Orso" vehicles.