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The 2nd Engineer Regiment is housed in Linton Military Camp that is situated approximately 10 km South of the City of Palmerston North. Raised on the 1st of July 1993 the Regiment is the only major Engineer Unit in the New Zealand Army. Linton Camp has been known throughout the Army as the traditional home of the Engineers. The School of Military Engineering first moved to Linton Camp in June 1953 but now comes under the Control of Army Schools in Waiouru. Palmerston North is a city in the Manawatu-Wanganui region of the North Island of New Zealand. ... 1993 (MCMXCIII) was a common year starting on Friday of the Gregorian calendar and marked the Beginning of the International Decade to Combat Racism and Racial Discrimination (1993-2003). ... The New Zealand Army (or NZ Army) (Maori Ngati Tumatauenga, Translation Tribe of the God of War (Note: Connotations include being landless, and thus from all of New Zealand) is the land armed force of the New Zealand military and comprises around 4,500 regular personnel and 2,500 non...
The role of the engineers is to assist in maintaining the mobility of NZ Armed Forces, deny freedom of movement to the enemy, and provide general engineering support. 2nd Engineer Regiment is to generate and sustain Engineer Troop and Squadron level command and control competent in combined arms operations in order to meet directed outputs.
NewZealand Cabinet Ministers, and Court of Appeal judges are customarily appointed to the Privy Council, and the latter are entitled to sit on the Judicial Committee to hear appeals from NewZealand and elsewhere.
The Queen is Colonel-in-Chief of the Corps of RoyalNewZealandEngineers, the RoyalNewZealand Infantry Regiment, and the RoyalNewZealand Army Ordnance Corps.
As the coat of arms of the NewZealand Government is not that of the Queen, she continues to use the Royal Arms in NewZealand, and members of the Royal Family use their own arms, which are variations of the Royal Arms.
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