"Arresto e distruggo"
The 3rd Engineer Regiment was constituted on 1st November 1926, in consequence of the transformation of the 2nd Army Corps Engineer Group.
From 1934 to 1937 it had the functions of a Regiment School; at the beginning of the 2nd World War it became a mobilization centre and formed the 2nd Army Engineer Special Group, that participated in the campaign in northern Africa until it was dissolved in May 1943, and several units of different specialties. The Regiment was dissolved in September 1943.
On 1st April 1954 a Pioneers Engineer Group, organized in four battalions, was constituted. On 1st April 1955 the Group was transformed into 3rd Pioneers Engineer Group that was moved to Orcenico Superiore (PN). On 1st October 1972 the Group changed its organic structure and name, becoming 3rd Sappers Engineer Regiment organized in the 30th and 31st Battalions.
After the reorganization of the Army, on 30th September 1975 the 30th Battalion was dissolved, followed by the Regiment Command on 31st December 1975. In the same date the 31st Sappers Engineer Battalion was named 3rd "Verbano" Sappers Engineer Regiment inheriting the War Flag and the traditions of the dissolved 3rd Regiment.
On 1st September 1992 it was included again in the 3rd Sappers Engineer Regiment.
The mobilized units of the Regiment participated in the Campaign in Eastern Africa (1935-1936), in the 2nd World War to the Greek-Albanian front (1940-1941), in Northern Africa (1940-1943), to the Russian front (1942-1943) and in the defence of Rome.
The 3rd Sappers Engineer Regiment is included in the "Pozzuolo del Friuli" Cavalry Brigade that is at the dependencies of the 1st Defence Operational Forces Command.
The Regiment was employed in the rescue operations after the earthquake in Friuli in May 1976, after the flooding in the provinces of Avellino, Salerno and Caserta in May-December 1998, as well as in the "Sicilian Vespers" Operation. Later it has become one of the components employed in all the overseas operational theatres where the Italian units are deployed.