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Purpose and Scope

This manual is intended to provide engineer and other military personnel with a compilation of data for use in planning of engineer activities. It includes data pertaining to engineer troops, equipment, construction materials, and to all types of engineer troop functions including soils, drainage, roads, railroads, bridges, port construction, airfields, heliports, POL distribution, barrier and denial operations, fortifications and protective structures, camouflage, general construction, and mapping. It also contains some frequently used design formulas, miscellaneous physical and mathematical data and conversion tables.