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 ...

KIEV (dpa) – Ukrainian army sapper Anatoly Babiy used his bare hands to excavate the dirt from around a rusty, but still potentially dangerous, artillery round buried in a farm field. The officer ...

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 ...

Combat engineers in the Army, also known as “Sappers,” will compete for the “Best Sapper” title at the 18th Lt. Gen. Robert B. Flowers Sapper Competition at Fort Leonard Wood, Mo., Friday through ...

On the first day of the Army's most elite combat engineering competition, the winning team made an error that could have knocked them out of running. For a swimming ...

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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 ...

CHARLESTON, W. Va. — Private 1st Class William Farkas, 17, attached to the 119th Engineer Company, 1092nd Engineer Battalion, with the West Virginia National Guard, has become the youngest ever ...

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 ...

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, ...