FORT LEONARD WOOD, Mo. — During a graduation ceremony April 9 at Lincoln Hall Auditorium, Pfc. Mitchel Haber, a 24-year-old National Guard combat engineer Soldier from Pocatello, Idaho, became the ...

Sgt. Hailey Falk, a combat engineer in the 101st Airborne Division, receives her Sapper tab on Dec. 7, 2018. Falk is the first enlisted woman to complete the Sapper Leader Course. (Stephen ...

A Hawaii-based soldier has completed a rare feat: graduating from three demanding courses to earn her Ranger, Sapper and Jungle tabs. First Lt. Mackenzie Corcoran with the 29th Brigade Engineer ...

FORT LEONARD WOOD, Mo. -- Sgt. Hailey Falk is the Army's first enlisted female Soldier to graduate from the rigorous Sapper Leader Course since the program's inception in 1985. Falk, 23, received her ...

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 ...

The Army announced Friday that the service's first female enlisted soldier has graduated from the physically challenging Sapper Leader Course. Sgt. Hailey Falk, who is assigned to B Company, 39th ...

The winners of the Best Sapper Competition might look a little familiar because, well, this is their second year in a row winning the prestigious — and rigorous — annual competition of Army combat ...

JOINT BASE LEWIS-MCCHORD, Wash. — A new train-up within the 1-2 Stryker Brigade Combat Team out of Joint Base Lewis-McChord (JBLM) is preparing soldiers for the US Army's elite Sapper Leader Course ...

When the U.S. Army needs to figure out how to move soldiers, it calls in the sappers — an elite group of combat engineers who know how to do anything the Army asks of them. And one Fairfax County, ...

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 ...

A frigid, gray Wednesday morning marked the beginning of a 36-hour trial for the combat engineers of Fort Carson. Over the course of two days, the six two-man teams from Fort Carson and the 4th ...