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sapper
noun- a Viet Cong or North Vietnamese commando US
Members of the North Vietnamese Army’s combat engineers, and thus the name, derived from the longstanding UK sense of the word as “a soldier in the Engineer Corps, the Royal Sappers and Miners”. “Sappers inside the wire!” was a warning call that US soldiers did not want to hear. - Now rewrite it and give it a happy ending–say, uh, one kill. Make it a sapper or an officer. — Full Metal Jacket, 1987
- The shelling became the worst curse of this DMZ war, worse than the infantry assaults, worse than the ambushes of the convoys, worse than the raids by the sappers (a term Americans applied to NVA and Viet Cong commando-type troops) who stripped to their undershorts and crawled through the barbed wire to toss satchel charges into bunkers and artillery revetments. — Neil Sheehan, A Bright Shining Lie, p. 649, 1988
- during the Vietnam war, an Australian combat engineer, especially one who searched and destroyed enemy tunnels AUSTRALIA
- — Gregory Clark, Words of the Vietnam War, p. 452, 1990
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