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Best Sapper Competition: 10th Mountain Division (LI) Engineers Take the Field

FORT LEONARD WOOD, Mo. (April 29, 2025) — Soldiers descended from a Chinook CH-47 onto the grounds of Fort Leonard Wood, Missouri, as the crowd cheered for the competitors beginning their journey into ...
Task & Purpose

Married Army couple win back-to-back Sapper school awards

An Army soldier won the top leadership award at Sapper school, then her husband did too. 1st Lts. Rachel and Samuel Kicklighter are combat engineer officers stationed at U.S. Army Garrison Bavaria, in ...
Army Times

Best sappers: Army combat engineers win back-to-back honors

Capts. Matthew Cushing and Joseph Palazini disassembled and assembled a M2 .50-caliber machine gun on April 21 during the 2024 Best Sapper Competition. (Melissa Buckley/Army) The winners of the Best ...
Stars and Stripes

Army soldiers will put skills to the test in challenging ‘Best Sapper’ competition at Fort Leonard Wood

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 ...
Task & Purpose

Rangers take top spot at Best Sapper Competition for fourth Army-wide win this year

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 ...