Lts. Christopher Barrett and Bryce Sullenger were declared the Army's top combat engineers after several days of grueling challenges.

The annual Best Sapper Competition gathers the U.S. Army’s elite engineers to compete in tests of skill, endurance, and creativity in leveraging ...

Wearing a maroon beret and sunglasses, Sapper likes to hang his head out the window of his best friend’s ride as it cruises around Fort Liberty and Fayetteville. At times, Sapper’s been stopped by ...

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 ...

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 ...

1st Lts. Christopher Barrett (left) and Bryce Sullenger won the 2026 Best Sapper Competition. (Cpl. Jesse Gonzales/U.S. Army Fort Leonard Wood) On the first day of ...

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 ...

CNN’s Brianna Keilar speaks with Michael D’Arcy, owner of Sapper, the USO Canine Volunteer of the Year. Sapper supports ...