Best Sapper teams from across the Army set out to demonstrate their combat engineer skills during the 12th annual Lieutenant General Robert B. Flowers Best Sapper Competition, held April 16-18, at ...

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 ...

After three years of dominance, the 82nd Airborne Division is taking a more youthful approach to this year’s Best Sapper Competition, but officials are hoping the results are more of the same. Among ...

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 ...

Wearing a maroon beret and sunglasses, Sapper likes to hang his head out the window of his best friend’s ride as it cruises around Fort Liberty and Fayetteville. At times, Sapper’s been stopped by ...

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.

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 ...

For the third time in a row, two soldiers from the 82nd Airborne Division have been named the Army's Best Sappers. Capt. Jason Bahmer and Sgt. 1st Class David Rizo on Thursday claimed the top spot in ...

Fort Bragg, N.C.- Paratroopers of Company A, 508th Special Troops Battalion, 4th Brigade Combat Team, 82nd Airborne Division, competed in a "Sapper Stakes" contest Jan. 14 and Jan. 15 to see which ...