Capts. Matthew Cushing and Joseph Palazini disassembled and assembled a M2 .50-caliber machine gun on April 21 during the 2024 Best Sapper Competition. (Melissa Buckley/Army) The winners of the Best ...

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 ...

WASHINGTON — In the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, the term sapper carries weight. For 250 years, sappers have served as elite combat engineers, supporting frontline infantry in every war throughout ...

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 ...

When U.S. Army Capt. Anna Roberts arrived at the U.S. Military Academy at West Point, she carried a deep sense of duty and ...

1st Lt. Mackenzie Corcoran poses with her Jungle, Sapper and Ranger certificates at Schofield Barracks, Hawaii, June 6, 2024. (Sgt. Johanna Pullum/Army) A Hawaii-based soldier has completed a rare ...

Combat engineers in the Army, also known as “Sappers,” will compete for the “Best Sapper” title at the 18th Lt. Gen. Robert B. Flowers Sapper Competition at Fort Leonard Wood, Mo., Friday through ...

FORT SHAFTER, Hawaii — In 1st Lt. Mackenzie Corcoran’s successful quest to become triple-tabbed by completing the Army’s challenging Jungle, Sapper and Ranger courses, she banished one thought from ...

In 1941, Stalin ordered the formation of special sapper brigades to hold off the German invasion—by 1943, they had become ...

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 ...