What is a "Sapper" in military terms.?

Question

What is a "Sapper" in military terms.?

Answer 1

A Sapper can mean one of two things: A combat engineer or someone who is a combat engineer and has completed Sapper School (like Ranger school but with explosives)

http://www.wood.army.mil/sapper/

Answer 2

A sapper is in/from the Royal Engineers

Answer 3

Hey :) Check this out.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sapper

Answer 4

  The Viet Cong and N. Vietnamese used 'sappers' to attack friendly positions, usually in the dead of night.

The 'sapper' would move ever so quietly with his satchel charge to a friendly perimeter, penetrate the perimeter if possible, and release his satchel charge that would detonate within seconds, once it was activated, much like a grenade !

Often the 'sapper' died in his attempt to vacate the perimeter, and sometimes by the satchel charge itself.

The most common target for a 'sapper' was the command post of each unit !