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 ...

Capts. Matthew Cushing and Joseph Palazini disassembled and assembled a M2 .50-caliber machine gun on April 21 during the 2024 Best Sapper Competition. (Melissa Buckley/Army) The winners of the Best ...

FORT LEONARD WOOD, Mo. — The winners of the 17th Lt. Gen. Robert B. Flowers Best Sapper Competition are Capts. Matthew Cushing and Joseph Palazini, from the 101st Airborne Division at Fort Campbell, ...

SPRINGFIELD, Mo. — Two local instructors dropped by the Daybreak set to talk about an upcoming Army event where soldiers compete against one another displaying combat engineering specialties. Missouri ...

The winners of the Best Sapper Competition might look a little familiar because, well, this is their second year in a row winning the prestigious — and rigorous — annual competition of Army combat ...