FORT LEONARD WOOD, Mo. -- Last week, two Soldiers of the 3rd Brigade Combat Team "Rakkasan," 101st Airborne Division, proudly received the 2018 Best Sapper trophy, beating out 39 other teams from ...

FORT STEWART, Ga. – Soldiers from the 9th Brigade Engineer Battalion, 2nd Armored Brigade Combat Team, 3rd Infantry Division at Fort Stewart, Georgia, worked tirelessly over the last several months ...

The 2025 Best Sapper Competition ended with a two-man team of Army Rangers coming in first, and in so doing, completing a near-sweep of major Army combat contests in 2025 by the elite unit, but it ...

Combat Engineer Paratroopers from across the 82nd Airborne Division train for the Best Sapper competition, Feb. 12, 2020, on Fort Bragg, North Carolina. Different explosive charges are one of many ...

Two captains from the 101st Airborne Division are now the first two soldiers to win the Army’s Best Sapper competition two years in a row. Capts. Matthew Cushing and Joseph Palazini, both company ...

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 ...

Capt. Jason Bahmer and Sgt. 1st Class David Rizo entered last month's Best Sapper Competition with chips on their shoulders. They left with the title of the best combat engineer team in the U.S. Army.

Fort Leonard Wood, Mo. – Jumping out of the back of a helicopter and into icy water at dawn with 90 pounds of gear for a swim across a pond is not a normal way to start the day. But for the son of a ...

Best Sapper competitors may be low on energy and sleep, but not on determination - they have pushed through seven Sapper Stakes events and are getting ready to begin Phase V this evening at Fort ...

First Lt. Luke Groom and Staff Sgt. Carlos Jimenez went to Fort Leonard Wood, Missouri, with one goal: Win. The soldiers, combat engineers with the 3rd Brigade Combat Team, 82nd Airborne Division, ...