Talk:Construction battalion

Requested move 14 May 2015

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The result of the move request was: Move. Cúchullain t/ c 18:56, 8 June 2015 (UTC)

Construction battalion (disambiguation) → Construction battalion – Construction battalion was unused except as a redirect to Seabee. relisted --Mike Cline (talk) 14:00, 22 May 2015 (UTC) KTo288 (talk) 09:46, 14 May 2015 (UTC)
 * Move and turn into a broad concept article. I presume that all of the entities called "construction battalion" are some kind of military battalion that engages in construction, as in, the building of structures. This is a kind of thing for which all construction battalions are examples, and should be an article, not a disambiguation page at all, per WP:DABCONCEPT. bd2412  T 15:38, 14 May 2015 (UTC)
 * Comment, yes there are those formations which are military units which engage in construction, however we do not have infantry battalion, infantry regiment, infantry division as stand alone articles, those three are redirects. Similarly although this discussion is with regards construction battalions, there are construction squadrons, construction companies, construction armies. So if the topic is deemed encyclopaedic the article should be at something like constructionman or construction soldier, the first is what the US Navy calls its ratings in such units, the second is taken up by the East German example. However, in addition to units which are an actual part of the military as often as not the term is used for paramilitary labour/construction units, often conscripted, where the aim is for the state to use manpower they deem unsuitable for combat arms, e.g. conscientious objectors, citizens of dubious loyalty, foreign manpower etc. These units are uniformed, live in barracks, have ranks, drill and march etc but do not have the combat training of sappers and pioneers. A general article on paramilitary non-combatant conststruction auxillaries should probably be at Labour corps (currently a disambiguation). I would also like to say the current Construction battalion (disambiguation) is pretty close to being a list article, and could probably be repurposed as such with a rewritten lead.--KTo288 (talk) 13:51, 15 May 2015 (UTC)
 * An article on the topic (or more generally on the topic of military units dedicated to construction) would certainly contain this list. bd2412  T 16:13, 16 May 2015 (UTC)


 * Support. -- Necrothesp (talk) 14:07, 20 May 2015 (UTC)


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