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    2025 BEST SAPPER COMPETITION

    2025 Best Sapper Competition

    2025 Best Sapper Competition    

    The 18th Lt. Gen. Robert B. Flowers Best Sapper Competition will be held April 25 through 29, 2025, at Fort Leonard Wood, Missouri. The Best Sapper Competition's concept is to not only determine the next "Best Sapper" team but to challenge and test the service members' knowledge, physical prowess and mental fortitude. The competition showcases the Army's elite Soldiers in combat engineering military occupation specialties.

    10 Featured Videos

    10th Mountain Division Engineers Compete in the Best Sapper Competition 2025

    10th Mountain Division Engineers Compete...
    04.29.25 | PFC Makenna Tilton | 27PAD
    Sgt. Bielak, Noah and and 1st. Lt. Schaal, Colton both 41st Engineer Battalion, 10th Mountain Division (LI), compete in the 18th Lt. Gen. Robert...
    10th Mountain Division Engineers Compete in the Best Sapper Competition 2025

    10th Mountain Division Engineers Compete...
    04.28.25 | PFC Makenna Tilton | 27PAD
    Sgt. Noah Bielak and 1st Lt. Colton Schaal, both assigned to the 41st Engineer Battalion, 10th Mountain Division (LI), compete in the 18th Lt....
    10th Mountain Division Engineers Compete in the Best Sapper Competition 2025

    10th Mountain Division Engineers Compete...
    04.28.25 | PFC Makenna Tilton | 27PAD
    Sgt. Noah Bielak and 1st Lt. Colton Schaal, both assigned to the 41st Engineer Battalion, 10th Mountain Division (LI), compete in the 18th Lt....
    10th Mountain Division Engineers Compete in the Best Sapper Competition 2025

    10th Mountain Division Engineers Compete...
    04.27.25 | PFC Makenna Tilton | 27PAD
    1st Lt. Colton Schaal, a platoon leader, and Sgt. Noah Bielak, a squad leader, both assigned to the 63rd Combat Engineer Company, 41st Engineer...
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    2025 Best Sapper Competition

    2025 Best Sapper Competition
    04.28.25 | Melissa Buckley | FLWPAO
    1st Lt. Megan Colpo, with the 3rd Armored Brigade Combat Team, prepares to breach a door while teammate 1st Lt. Jake Lanham looks on April 28 at...
    2025 Best Sapper Competition

    2025 Best Sapper Competition
    04.29.25 | Melissa Buckley | FLWPAO
    2025 Best Sapper winners, Capt. James Mitchiner and 1st Lt. George Madden with the 75th Ranger Regiment, in Fort Benning, Georgia, receive the...
    2025 Best Sapper Competition

    2025 Best Sapper Competition
    04.28.25 | Melissa Buckley | FLWPAO
    1st Lts. Megan Colpo and Jake Lanham, with the 3rd Armored Brigade Combat Team, 588th Brigade Engineer Battalion in Fort Carson, Colorado,...
    2025 Best Sapper Competition

    2025 Best Sapper Competition
    04.27.25 | Melissa Buckley | FLWPAO
    Capt. James Mitchiner with the 75th Ranger Regiment in Fort Benning, Georgia, uses an exothermic torch system to cut metal rods to breach a...
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    4 Featured Stories

    Warriors show no mercy during grueling Best Sapper Competition

    Warriors show no mercy during grueling...
    05.02.25 | Melissa Buckley | FLWPAO
    Two 75th Ranger Regiment Soldiers use violence of action strategy to dominate competition, earning the title of Best Sappers during the 18th Lt....
    Best Sapper Competition: 10th Mountain Division (LI) Engineers Take the Field

    Best Sapper Competition: 10th Mountain...
    04.29.25 | PFC Makenna Tilton | 27PAD
    1st Lt. Coltan Schaal, a platoon leader, and Sgt. Noah Bielak, a squad leader, both assigned to the 63rd Combat Engineer Company, 41st Engineer...
    Best Sapper Competition to commence April 25 at Fort Leonard Wood

    Best Sapper Competition to commence April...
    04.17.25 | Melissa Buckley | FLWPAO
    Competitors are registered, challenges are primed and the stage is set for the 18th Lt. Gen. Robert B. Flowers Best Sapper Competition April 25 to...

    From Scotland to Chicago: 173rd IBCT (A)...
    04.09.25 | CPT Jennifer French | 173IBCT-A
    With sweat, grit, and plenty of good-natured banter, two combat engineers from the 173rd Airborne Brigade are preparing to push themselves to the...
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