FORT LEONARD WOOD, Mo. — With the Best Sapper Competition just two weeks away, local competitors said they are diligently preparing their bodies and minds for the intense challenge. The 17th Lt. Gen.

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 ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The winners of the Best Sapper Competition might look a little familiar because, well, this is their second year in a row winning ...

SATURDAY HERE ON CHANNEL EIGHT. TRAVIS LEE MEANS TOTAL COVERAGE. A SCARBOROUGH NATIVE SERVING IN THE ARMY IS BEING RECOGNIZED AS "BEST SAPPER" -- AFTER WINNING A GRUELING COMPETITION THIS PAST WEEK.

First lieutenants Christopher Barrett and Bryce Sullenger made some costly mistakes early in the Army’s Best Sapper Competition at Fort Leonard Wood, Mo., this week, but they bore down and dominated ...

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 ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Army Sgt. Maj. Russel Hull, senior enlisted leader of 9th Brigade Engineer Battalion, 2nd Armored Brigade Combat Team, 3rd ...

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. Johnson is ...

FORT LEONARD, Mo. -- From April 8 -10, Capt. Erwin J. Marciniak, the logistics officer-in-charge , and 1st Lt. Jeremy Y. Matsumoto, the assistant operations officer, both of 299th Brigade Engineer ...

When the U.S. Army needs to figure out how to move soldiers, it calls in the sappers — an elite group of combat engineers who know how to do anything the Army asks of them. And one Fairfax County, ...