In a series of moves with White Sands, the newly reflagged battalion, nicknamed Sapper Steel, added about 150 combat engineers, increasing their presence in the unit from about 75 previously.

Eight teams from the 2nd Engineer Battalion, stationed at White Sands Missile Range, competed against each other for a chance to win the first 2d Engineer Battalion Sapper Steel Warrior Challenge ...

Sapper skills competitors will be tested on are being listed on the Best Sapper Competition ... A few of the events already posted online are special steel cutting, mountaineering, a ...

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.

A team cuts steel with an exothermic torch during the Best Sapper Competition at Fort Leonard Wood, Missouri. (Michael Curtis/Army) Dozens of soldiers will compete in the Army’s 2018 Best Sapper ...

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 ...

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 ...

Since 2005, the Best Sapper competition has showcased "the Army's elite soldiers in combat engineering military occupation specialties." Over the course of three days, about a hundred combat ...