There was a few minutes where I wanted to quit, because I was just like, ‘What am I doing? I'm 43 years old. I've been in the ...

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 ...

FORT LEONARD WOOD, Mo. — Service members wanting to compete for the title of Best Sapper have a couple more weeks to register and organizers of this year’s competition announced a new strategy to ...

FORT LEONARD WOOD, Mo. — Cadet Nickalus Johnson, a Gruver native, is slated to compete in the 17th Best Sapper Competition, to be held April 19 through 22 at Fort Leonard Wood, Missouri. Johnson is ...

KIEV (dpa) – Ukrainian army sapper Anatoly Babiy used his bare hands to excavate the dirt from around a rusty, but still potentially dangerous, artillery round buried in a farm field. The officer ...

CAMP DODGE, Iowa – Engineers from the 402nd Company, 389th Battalion, from Des Moines, Iowa, conducted Sapper Stakes at Camp Dodge, Iowa, Aug. 27-28. The purpose of the training was to test the ...

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, ...