A Hawaii-based soldier has completed a rare feat: graduating from three demanding courses to earn her Ranger, Sapper and Jungle tabs. First Lt. Mackenzie Corcoran with the 29th Brigade Engineer ...

A Hawaii-based combat engineer became ‘triple-tabbed’ by completing three of the Army’s most demanding courses, Ranger and Sapper school, and a Hawaii-based Jungle course. Earning all three is rare ...

Sgt. Hailey Falk, a combat engineer in the 101st Airborne Division, receives her Sapper tab on Dec. 7, 2018. Falk is the first enlisted woman to complete the Sapper Leader Course. (Stephen ...

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 ...

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. -- (Oct. 11, 2012) The Sapper Leader Course has been molding superior Army engineer leaders since 1985. Now, Marine Capt. Kathryn Neff has put her mark on the elite school's ...

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, ...

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 ...

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