32nd_Alpine_Engineer_Regiment
32nd Engineer Regiment (Italy)
Military unit
The 32nd Engineer Regiment (Italian: 32° Reggimento Genio Guastatori) is a military engineer regiment of the Italian Army based in Fossano in Piedmont. Formed on 24 September 2004 the regiment is the Italian Army's youngest engineer regiment and specializes in mountain combat. Its name was chosen to commemorate the XXXII Sapper Battalion, which participated in the Western Desert Campaign of World War II, while the regiment's only battalion name commemorates the XXX Sappers Battalion, which participated in the Italian campaign on the Eastern Front. Since its formation on 1 September 2002 as 32nd Engineer Battalion the unit has been part of the Alpine Brigade "Taurinense". Together with the other units of the Taurinense brigade the regiment shares the distinctive Cappello Alpino.[3] The regimental anniversary falls, as for all engineer units, on June 24, the end of the Second Battle of the Piave River in 1918.[3]