The winners of the Best Sapper Competition might look a little familiar because, well, this is their second year in a row winning the prestigious — and rigorous — annual competition of Army combat ...

Rafael Eirea-Lamberto, a combat engineer for the 9th Engineer Battalion at Fort Stewart, studies a set of instructions as his teammates wrap rope around rope. The group is immersed in an exercise ...

FORT LEONARD WOOD, Mo. (April 25, 2023) – Two teams of combat engineers assigned to the 7th Brigade Engineer Battalion (BEB) and the 41st Brigade Engineer Battalion, 10th Mountain Division (LI), ...

Carrying nearly 80-pound packs while moving from obstacle to obstacle over a 14-mile course, 10 two-person military teams kicked off day one of the three-day Best Sapper competition Wednesday at Fort ...

An Army soldier won the top leadership award at Sapper school, then her husband did too. 1st Lts. Rachel and Samuel Kicklighter are combat engineer officers stationed at U.S. Army Garrison Bavaria, in ...

Fort Stewart's combat engineers train ahead of Best Sapper Competition 2022 Combat engineers from Fort Stewart's 92nd and 9th Engineer Battalion will represent the 3rd Infantry Division at the 15th ...

There are two types of combat engineers: those who say demolition is their favorite mission, and those who are lying. Sappers from the 36th Engineer Brigade at Fort Hood, Texas, had a chance to carry ...

Capt. Joseph Palazini, left, and Capt. Matthew Cushing, right, took first place in the Army's 16th Best Sapper Competition. (Angi Betran/Army) For the winners of this year’s Best Sapper Competition, ...

FORT LEONARD, Mo. -- From April 8 -10, Capt. Erwin J. Marciniak, the logistics officer-in-charge , and 1st Lt. Jeremy Y. Matsumoto, the assistant operations officer, both of 299th Brigade Engineer ...

WARSAW, Poland (AP) — Canada will deploy approximately 40 combat engineers to NATO ally Poland to train Ukrainian sappers in de-mining, engineer reconnaissance and explosives, the Canadian defense ...