[Ogre] combat engineers fixing treads

[David Morse]

On 5/31/05, Donald McLean <dmclean at stsci.edu> wrote:
> > As I've broken cover, my real objection to engineers fixing tracks is that
> > in the real world combat engineers and mechanical engineers are entirely
> > different branches of service. That's not to say that in the Ogre world
> > they might not have merged, but the skills are very different so it seems
> > unlikely to say the least.
> >
> > Stranger
> 
> That's a very good point. Combat engineers build and destroy bridges,
> fortifications and other structural things. They would be the army
> equivalent of "civil engineers" I would guess and quite a very different
> thing from vehicle mechanics.

In the late 21st century, white collar jobs like computer programming
and tax preperation are easy to learn by hypno training.  Its physical
skills like piloting a battlesuit that are have to be learned the old
fasioned way, and are therefore in high demand.  Which categories do
combat engineers and mechanics fit into, I wonder?