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 ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Rafael Eirea-Lamberto, a combat engineer for the 9th Engineer Battalion at Fort Stewart, studies a set of instructions as his ...

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 ...

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 ...

“When our Nation needs a tough job done, they call the Army. When our Army needs a tough job done, they call on the SAPPERS,” the saying by Lt. General Robert B. Flowers goes. “Sappers,” also known as ...