Julius Caesar's engineers built a bridge across the Rhine in just 10 days, using local lumber, it was estimated to be 140 to 400 m (roughly 460 to 1,300 ft) The Roman army was once distinguished by its focus on *construction*, and it would be amazing if that were the case today
a bridge in 10 days is an amazing achievement, and all by hand, and the cost of construction in the us seems to keep going up, at least for things like subway construction, nuclear plants, etc.
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this was my vision of the citizen soldier when I signed up for the army combat engineers. first year we were sandbagging communities along the mississipi for flooding. second, building bridges in panama. unfortunately, soldiering is destructive business.
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right? there *could be a role* for organizations like this. e.g. the western states could have a fire corp that fights fires during and before fire season, that shifts into an alternate build crew in other seasons. may be more and more necessary in the coming decades
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