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 ...

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 ...

FORT LEONARD WOOD, Mo. — Cadet Nickalus Johnson, a Gruver native, is slated to compete in the 17th Best Sapper Competition, to be held April 19 through 22 at Fort Leonard Wood, Missouri. Johnson is ...

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 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 ...

Capt. Joseph Palazini, left, and Capt. Matthew Cushing, right, took first place in the Army's 16th Best Sapper Competition. (Angi Betran/Army) For the winners of this year’s Best Sapper Competition, ...

A cadet from North Kingstown is the first Rhode Islander selected to lead the U.S. Military Academy’s Corps of Cadets, or ...