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, ...

Capts. Matthew Cushing and Joseph Palazini disassembled and assembled a M2 .50-caliber machine gun on April 21 during the 2024 Best Sapper Competition. (Melissa Buckley/Army) The winners of the Best ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...