FORT MCCOY, Wis. - "Training is always great. The spirit of competition with lives high in engineers and sappers, so when you raise the level of training and make it competitive it raises the ...

There was a few minutes where I wanted to quit, because I was just like, ‘What am I doing? I'm 43 years old. I've been in the ...

A 25-year-old Pocatello man who’s in the local Idaho National Guard recently beat the odds by graduating from the Sapper Leader Course at Fort Leonard Wood, Missouri. Pfc. Mitchel Haber, who recently ...

The U.S. Army Engineer School at Fort Leonard Wood, Missouri, is home to one of the toughest engineer courses the Engineer Regiment has to offer -- the Sapper Leader Course. As the Army's premier ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Rafael Eirea-Lamberto, a combat engineer for the 9th Engineer Battalion at Fort Stewart, studies a set of instructions as his ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

FORT LEONARD WOOD, Mo. — Dripping with sweat and only able to muster enough energy for a slow jog, exhausted sapper teams made their way under the arch of a small red castle while friends, Family, ...

A team cuts steel with an exothermic torch during the Best Sapper Competition at Fort Leonard Wood, Missouri. (Michael Curtis/Army) Dozens of soldiers will compete in the Army’s 2018 Best Sapper ...

FORT LEONARD WOOD, Mo. -- The Sapper Leader Course has been molding superior Army engineer leaders since 1985. Now, Marine Capt. Kathryn Neff has put her mark on the elite school's history -- not once ...

Rafael Eirea-Lamberto, a combat engineer for the 9th Engineer Battalion at Fort Stewart, studies a set of instructions as his teammates wrap rope around rope. The group is immersed in an exercise ...