FORT LEONARD WOOD, Mo. — The U.S. Army Engineer School is now accepting applications for the 16th Lt. Gen. Robert B. Flowers Best Sapper Competition, officials said. The competition is scheduled to ...

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 ...

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 ...

Townsville-based Australian Army combat rescue operator Sapper Nathan Roberts said his first two years in uniform were a blur ...

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 ...

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 ...

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, ...

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 ...

FORT LEONARD WOOD, Mo. (March 7, 2019) -- The 13th annual Lt. Gen. Robert B. Flowers Best Sapper Competition is quickly approaching, with the event dates set from April 8 through 10 at Fort Leonard ...

A team from the 82nd Airborne Division came out on top of the 2nd annual Best Mortar competition at Fort Benning, Ga. (Army) Soldiers from Fort Bragg, North Carolina, and Fort Campbell, Kentucky, took ...

In late March, two Army officers will become the first-all female team to compete in a grueling competition to select the best sappers from the entire service. Capt. Hilary Thomas and 1st Lt. Alyvia ...