FORT MCCOY, Wis. - "Training is always great. The spirit of competition with lives high in engineers and sappers, so when you raise the level of training and make it competitive it raises the ...

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 ...

The Ministry of Defence of Ukraine plans to increase the number of sappers and involve 5000 Ukrainian bomb technicians, create a sapper training centre jointly with the American Tetra Tech company, ...

A 25-year-old Pocatello man who’s in the local Idaho National Guard recently beat the odds by graduating from the Sapper Leader Course at Fort Leonard Wood, Missouri. Pfc. Mitchel Haber, who recently ...

U.S. Army Reserve combat engineer Soldiers from the 374th Engineer Company (Sapper), headquartered in Concord, Calif., conduct a rappel training from a 100-foot tower, July 19, during a two-week field ...

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. — Deep in the woods, mosquitoes whine, flies buzz, and thick brown spiders dart from under one fallen leaf to the next, trying to evade the nearly 100-degree heat. On her elbows ...

The Army Sappers School graduates infantry savvy, engineer-type, explosive experts, able to grant troops access to wherever they need to go. Skip straight to sapper school > In a 28-training-day ...

FORT LEONARD WOOD, Mo. -- The Sapper Leader Course has been molding superior Army engineer leaders since 1985. Now, Marine Capt. Kathryn Neff has put her mark on the elite school's history -- not once ...

Fort Leonard Wood, Mo. – Jumping out of the back of a helicopter and into icy water at dawn with 90 pounds of gear for a swim across a pond is not a normal way to start the day. But for the son of a ...