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. (Feb. 14, 2019) -- Applications for engineers wanting to compete in the 13th annual Lt. Gen. Robert B. Flowers Best Sapper Competition are now being accepted through March 8.

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 ...

FORT LEONARD WOOD, Mo. — Dripping with sweat and only able to muster enough energy for a slow jog, exhausted sapper teams made their way under the arch of a small red castle while friends, Family, ...

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 ...

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 ...

FORT LEONARD WOOD, Mo. -- When something gets in the way of the mission, it's the 1138th Engineer Company's job to move it. And when Sappers move something, things tend to get loud. On Thursday, about ...