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I was glad to see the students (E-3's to O-3's) getting thrashed physically, reminded that a lack of proper tools shouldn't stop the job getting done and being reminded that being called a Sapper is the greatest compliment that could be paid to them
Army Rumour Service 2009
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I was glad to see the students (E-3's to O-3's) getting thrashed physically, reminded that a lack of proper tools shouldn't stop the job getting done and being reminded that being called a Sapper is the greatest compliment that could be paid to them
Army Rumour Service 2009
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The other was a Security, Patrol, and Rescue robot, an SPR, more casually called Sapper 323.
Roger MacBride Allen, Roger MacBride 1996
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"This is Danny Daniel Webb, known as Sapper to his friends."
The Seventh Scroll Smith, Wilbur 1995
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The medal belonged to a man called Sapper George Jesse Howe Smith but searching for a man with the surname Smith who died in 1945 wasn't an easy task.
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That was the title of Richard Usborne's book, published in the same year as Casino Royale, about the novels of John Buchan, Dornford Yates, and "Sapper," and those earlier heroes would not, Bergonzi sniffed, have tolerated club servants talking like something out of a New Yorker ad ( "If I may suggest, Sir, the Dom Perignon '46").
Box 2009
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R.Jul. - Aug. (21.) * #McNeille, Cyril ( "Sapper").
The Best Short Stories of 1920 and the Yearbook of the American Short Story Various 1915
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McNeile, under the pen name "Sapper," was already somewhat known in
When Winter Comes to Main Street Grant Martin Overton 1908
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Team "Sapper" is one of three team finalists chosen based on the individualism, originality, inspiration and creativity of their submissions, as well as their passion for automotive tuning and the results of public voting at www. battleofthebuilds.com.
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- The 951st Combat Engineer "Sapper" Company deployed to Afghanistan and conducted route clearance operations.
rlrainwater commented on the word Sapper
A sapper is a combat engineer in the British or Commonwealth forces.
"Sappers Mark Quinsey, 23, of Birmingham, and Patrick Azimkar, 21, of London, were killed as they collected pizzas outside Antrim's Massereene Barracks on March 7." London Daily Telegraph, 27 March 2009
March 27, 2009