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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

EL PASO, Texas (KTSM) — A soldier from El Paso is scheduled to compete in the Army’s Best Sapper Competition. The competition, which showcases skills from the Army’s elite combat engineering soldiers, ...

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 WOOD, Mo. (WAND) — An Argenta man will get the opportunity to test his mettle in the wooded and hilly Ozarks next month. 1st Lt. Michael Barnes is slated to compete in the 17th Best ...

SPRINGFIELD, Mo. — Two local instructors dropped by the Daybreak set to talk about an upcoming Army event where soldiers compete against one another displaying combat engineering specialties. Missouri ...

COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. (KRDO) - Today, Fort Carson soldiers jumped out of a Black Hawk helicopter before participating in a mystery competition. It's part of the qualifying process for a national ...

FORT LEONARD WOOD, Mo. — Jumping out of the back of a helicopter and into icy water at dawn with 90 pounds of gear for a swim across a pond is not a normal way to start the day. But for the son of a ...