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Best Sapper Competition registration closing soon

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 ...
Idaho State Journal

Local National Guardsman graduates with top honors from Sapper Leader Course

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 ...
KING5

Combat engineering train-up at JBLM helps soldiers push their limits

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 ...
Savannah Morning News

What's a 'sapper'? Fort Stewart soldiers among the U.S. Army's best combat engineers

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 ...
The Fayetteville Observer

Best Sapper Competition: 82nd Airborne team wins for third straight year

Capt. Jason Bahmer and Sgt. 1st Class David Rizo entered last month's Best Sapper Competition with chips on their shoulders. They left with the title of the best combat engineer team in the U.S. Army.