Helen Clark meets Bush

they are both Dicks -

Cool! I'd like to see what it's like to invade Iraq with a screwdriver...

see what army engineers do mate - they are soldiers and are on the front line.

Engineers and soldiers are different. Engineers are NOT soldiers by definition and tasks and they are almost never on the front line. I can go into detail...

they carry guns and go in with the front line do they not?

yep lightest of weapons purely to protect themselves, they never go unguarded

So to get this straight. They go in on the front line and carry guns? Yes or no answer.

yes

I believe you're talking about mechanics, not engineers. Engineers only go into the heart of battle in Command And Conquer: Red Alert

A military engineer is primarily responsible for the design and construction of offensive, defensive, and logistical structures for warfare. Other duties include the layout, placement, maintenance and dismantling of defensive minefields and the clearing of enemy minefields and the construction and destruction of bridges. In some cases an engineer may be required to destroy something that that same engineer designed and constructed. In many armies the military engineers are also called pio