FORT LEONARD WOOD, Mo. (Jan. 27, 2014) -- Twenty-five-year-old 1st Lt. Katherine Baumann loves to be challenged and decided there would be no limits to what she could learn and experience with a ...

FORT LEONARD WOOD, Mo. -- The Sapper Leader Course has been molding superior Army engineer leaders since 1985. Now, Marine Capt. Kathryn Neff has put her mark on the elite school's history -- not once ...

AUSTIN, Texas -- "Class, attention! The Sapper Creed!," said Texas Guardsmen and class 08-16 Sapper Leader Course honor graduate 2nd Lt. Ethan McIntosh. The room thundered as 23 course graduates ...

U.S. Marines from 2nd Combat Engineer Battalion, 2nd Marine Division, trained in a combat town during the Sapper Leadership Course at Marine Corps Base Camp Lejeune on Nov. 18, 2025. The event put ...

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 ...

Combat Engineer Paratroopers from across the 82nd Airborne Division train for the Best Sapper competition, Feb. 12, 2020, on Fort Bragg, North Carolina. Different explosive charges are one of many ...

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 ...

Women are not allowed to serve in certain combat occupations -- but that's not stopping female engineers from taking on the grueling 28-day Sapper Leader Course, becoming Sapper qualified and wearing ...

FORT LEONARD WOOD, Mo. — Deep in the woods, mosquitoes whine, flies buzz, and thick brown spiders dart from under one fallen leaf to the next, trying to evade the nearly 100-degree heat. On her elbows ...

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 ...

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 ...