FORT MCCOY, Wis. - "Training is always great. The spirit of competition with lives high in engineers and sappers, so when you raise the level of training and make it competitive it raises the ...

The U.S. Army Engineer School at Fort Leonard Wood, Missouri, is home to one of the toughest engineer courses the Engineer Regiment has to offer -- the Sapper Leader Course. As the Army's premier ...

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 ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Rafael Eirea-Lamberto, a combat engineer for the 9th Engineer Battalion at Fort Stewart, studies a set of instructions as his ...

FORT LEONARD WOOD, Mo. — Dripping with sweat and only able to muster enough energy for a slow jog, exhausted sapper teams made their way under the arch of a small red castle while friends, Family, ...

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 ...

FORT LEONARD WOOD, Mo. — Bullets spewed from the M240 machine gun’s barrel so fast that it was practically spitting flames. Lying in the grass, the soldier fired the machine gun at an “enemy” vehicle ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The Ministry of Defence of Ukraine plans to increase the number of sappers and involve 5000 Ukrainian bomb technicians, create a ...

The Army's Sapper Leader Course, training for combat engineers, has been open to women since 1999. It applies the same physical standards to men and women. Comments from Facebook: Army 1st Lt. Ashley ...

While the Pentagon brass and U.S. military leaders are struggling over how to bring women into ground combat training, two young female soldiers have already proven they've got what it takes to join ...

source GAIA package: Sx_MilitaryTimes_M6201410310300044_5675.zip Origin key: Sx_MilitaryTimes_M6201410310300044 imported at Fri Jan 8 18:19:05 2016 A lieutenant colonel relieved of his post as head of ...

Rafael Eirea-Lamberto, a combat engineer for the 9th Engineer Battalion at Fort Stewart, studies a set of instructions as his teammates wrap rope around rope. The group is immersed in an exercise ...