Colonel William P. Doyle was sleeping on March 28, 1971, when mortar shelling outside his bunker awakened him. As he tried to figure out what was happening, tear gas started to choke and blind him.

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 ...

Maya Sapper, long time Santa Cruz resident, went to the infinite beyond, in peace and surrounded with love, on April 14th. Maya was born in 1931 and grew up with her parents and 3 siblings in north ...

WASHINGTON — In the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, the term sapper carries weight. For 250 years, sappers have served as elite combat engineers, supporting frontline infantry in every war throughout ...

Combat engineers in the Army, also known as “Sappers,” will compete for the “Best Sapper” title at the 18th Lt. Gen. Robert B. Flowers Sapper Competition at Fort Leonard Wood, Mo., Friday through ...

"If you're not an experienced sapper, you can go on a mission, but you may not come back," jokes Andriy, the commander of a platoon of Ukrainian sappers. We are meeting with Andriy, whose call sign is ...

FORT SHAFTER, Hawaii — In 1st Lt. Mackenzie Corcoran’s successful quest to become triple-tabbed by completing the Army’s challenging Jungle, Sapper and Ranger courses, she banished one thought from ...

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 ...

The announcement followed talks in Warsaw and included confirmation that RAF Eurofighters would bolster NATO's eastern flank defense next year. UK Defense Secretary John Healey, on a visit to Poland ...

Joshua has been playing video games for as long as he can remember. He's currently playing just about any and every new AAA story-based game. In his free time, he enjoys buying, building, painting, ...

Wearing a maroon beret and sunglasses, Sapper likes to hang his head out the window of his best friend’s ride as it cruises around Fort Liberty and Fayetteville. At times, Sapper’s been stopped by ...