WASHINGTON — In the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, the term sapper carries weight. For 250 years, sappers have served as elite combat engineers, supporting frontline infantry in every war throughout ...

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 BLISS, Texas - Fifty teams, fifty miles, in just fifty hours. Those are the odds stacked against the first Fort Bliss team to take on the Army's elite combat engineer competition in three years.

Best Sapper competitors may be low on energy and sleep, but not on determination - they have pushed through seven Sapper Stakes events and are getting ready to begin Phase V this evening at Fort ...

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 ...

For the third time in a row, two soldiers from the 82nd Airborne Division have been named the Army's Best Sappers. Capt. Jason Bahmer and Sgt. 1st Class David Rizo on Thursday claimed the top spot in ...

Memories of a Sapper, Royal Engineers Part One — TA Call-up 1/9/39 - 248th Field Company, Bedford to Iraq in 1941. Part one of an oral history interview with the Hon. Alderman Bill Astle conducted by ...