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 ...

For the winners of this year’s Best Sapper Competition, the toughest part of the annual event between Army combat engineers had little to do with blowing doors off their hinges, identifying ordnance, ...

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 ...

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.

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 ...

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 ...

“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 ...

Carrying nearly 80-pound packs while moving from obstacle to obstacle over a 14-mile course, 10 two-person military teams kicked off day one of the three-day Best Sapper competition Wednesday at Fort ...