FORT LEONARD WOOD, Mo. (Jan. 27, 2014) -- Twenty-five-year-old 1st Lt. Katherine Baumann loves to be challenged and decided there would be no limits to what she could learn and experience with a ...

Combat Engineer Paratroopers from across the 82nd Airborne Division train for the Best Sapper competition, Feb. 12, 2020, on Fort Bragg, North Carolina. Different explosive charges are one of many ...

AUSTIN, Texas -- "Class, attention! The Sapper Creed!," said Texas Guardsmen and class 08-16 Sapper Leader Course honor graduate 2nd Lt. Ethan McIntosh. The room thundered as 23 course graduates ...

Women are not allowed to serve in certain combat occupations -- but that's not stopping female engineers from taking on the grueling 28-day Sapper Leader Course, becoming Sapper qualified and wearing ...

U.S. Army Reserve combat engineer Soldiers from the 374th Engineer Company (Sapper), headquartered in Concord, Calif., conduct a rappel training from a 100-foot tower, July 19, during a two-week field ...

The Army announced Friday that the service's first female enlisted soldier has graduated from the physically challenging Sapper Leader Course. Sgt. Hailey Falk, who is assigned to B Company, 39th ...

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 ...

A Hawaii-based soldier has completed a rare feat: graduating from three demanding courses to earn her Ranger, Sapper and Jungle tabs. First Lt. Mackenzie Corcoran with the 29th Brigade Engineer ...

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 ...

FORT LEONARD WOOD, Mo. — Deep in the woods, mosquitoes whine, flies buzz, and thick brown spiders dart from under one fallen leaf to the next, trying to evade the nearly 100-degree heat. On her elbows ...

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 ...

PORTSMOUTH — West Point cadet Jon Somssich is on his way to a month of intense Army training. Somssich, son of Peter and Kathy Somssich of Portsmouth, has been accepted to participate in the Sapper ...