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 ...

Of the four permanent individual skill tabs authorized for wear by the U.S. Army, one is earned exclusively at Fort Leonard ...

IN THIS GAME, 50 centimetres can make all the difference. “Tsar”, a 35-year-old veterinarian turned combat engineer, was part of a five-man group demining fields near Robotyne on June 27th. The ...

“When our Nation needs a tough job done, they call the Army. When our Army needs a tough job done, they call on the SAPPERS,” the saying by Lt. General Robert B. Flowers goes. “Sappers,” also known as ...

Capt. Joseph Palazini, left, and Capt. Matthew Cushing, right, took first place in the Army's 16th Best Sapper Competition. (Angi Betran/Army) For the winners of this year’s Best Sapper Competition, ...

FORT LEONARD WOOD, Mo. -- Rounding out the Army's three engineering disciplines, combat engineers, also known as "Sappers," enable the maneuverability of forces by applying mobility, counter-mobility, ...

It is not typical for engineers to have to excavate five meters into the ground to pull out half a ton of explosive material. But in Zaporizhzhia, Ukrainian sappers recently faced just that a Russian ...