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 ...

Sgt. Hailey Falk, a combat engineer in the 101st Airborne Division, receives her Sapper tab on Dec. 7, 2018. Falk is the first enlisted woman to complete the Sapper Leader Course. (Stephen ...

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 ...

FORT STEWART, Ga. – Fifty teams competing, fifty miles to cover, and fifty hours to finish, but only one team can be named Best Sapper. Three teams from Fort Stewart are slated to compete in the 14th ...

The winners of the Best Sapper Competition might look a little familiar because, well, this is their second year in a row winning the prestigious — and rigorous — annual competition of Army combat ...

SCHOFIELD BARRACKS, Hawaii (Nov. 4, 2009) - The sapper community on Hawaii witnessed a new milestone on the island when Soldiers from the 34th Sapper Company held their first annual Super Sapper ...

Best Sapper competitors may be low on energy and sleep, but not on determination - they have pushed through seven Sapper Stakes events and are getting ready to begin Phase V this evening at Fort ...

JOINT BASE LEWIS-MCCHORD, Wash. — A new train-up within the 1-2 Stryker Brigade Combat Team out of Joint Base Lewis-McChord (JBLM) is preparing soldiers for the US Army's elite Sapper Leader Course ...

Army%27s handling of combat engineer school for women a model for other units Barely a ripple as women pass the course on equal footing with men Though female soldiers demand no special treatment%2C ...

For three grueling days, combat engineers affiliated with Fort Bliss and the 1st Armored Division were tested mentally and physically to see who was the best. They were tested on their soldier and ...

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 ...