Courtesy Story | 20th Engineer Brigade | 01.30.2020
The 57th Sapper Company, “ROUGH TERRAIN,” has historically maintained the capability to insert personnel and equipment via air drop into austere environments devoid of clearly established drop zones. The capability was adopted from Western United States smoke jumpers and its military application dates back to the 555th Parachute Infantry Battalion “TRIPLE NICKLES” who employed the......
Story by Catherine Hopkins | Defense Logistics Agency | 11.04.2014
More than 18,000 maps have been distributed by the Defense Logistics Agency Aviation Customer Operations Directorate’s Mapping Customer Operations Division to support the effort to contain the Ebola virus in West Africa....
Story by Jessica Roman | Defense Logistics Agency | 10.16.2014
A cargo handler capable of operating on rough terrain, beaches and unimproved surfaces is moving materials in Liberia to support the U.S. effort to contain Ebola in West Africa thanks to the efforts of Defense Logistics Agency Distribution....
Story by Sgt. Jessica Kuhn | XVIII Airborne Corps Public Affairs | 10.27.2011
When most paratroopers jump out of a plane, they hope to avoid thick forests or uneven terrain, but for the airborne sappers and combat engineers of the 57th Sapper Company, 27th Engineer Battalion that is exactly what they look forward to doing. For the first time in two years, the engineers took to the skies and then the woods to maintain the unit’s proficiency in rough terrain jumps at......
