FORT LEONARD WOOD, Mo. -- Rounding out the Army's three engineering disciplines, combat engineers, also known as "Sappers," enable the maneuverability of forces by applying mobility, counter-mobility, ...

FORT BRAGG, N.C. (Jan. 24, 2013) -- "Combined arms" is a military term more often associated with assaults, ambushes and other dramatic actions used to close with and destroy the enemy. For ...

For decades, the Department of Defense barred service women from competing for or being assigned to direct ground combat ...

COLCHESTER — A few days after two women became the first female soldiers to pass the Army’s grueling Ranger School, a college junior in Vermont became a military pathfinder in her own right. At first, ...

The Israel Defense Forces on Friday deemed a pilot program integrating female recruits into the Combat Engineering Corps’ elite Yahalom unit a success, paving the way for women combat engineers to ...

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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 ...

The new ABV features the M1 Abrams box-shaped hull and weighs 50 tonnes. (Commonwealth of Australia) An initial group of Australian Army soldiers have started operations and maintenance training on ...

Born and raised in San Antonio, Stephanie Tovar has built a career defined by service, resilience and a deep commitment to the people she works alongside. She put herself through Texas A&M ...

The U.S. Army is rolling out a new fitness test that will require female soldiers serving in combat jobs to be rated on the same score chart as their male counterparts, a move that comes after Defense ...