A robotic Assault Breacher Vehicle cleared mines during a 2022 combined arms breach exercise at Yakima Training Center in Washington state. (Jen Judson/Staff) The challenges faced by combat engineers ...

When U.S. Army Capt. Anna Roberts arrived at the U.S. Military Academy at West Point, she carried a deep sense of duty and family legacy. Two cousins ...

FORT LEONARD WOOD, Mo. -- Rounding out the Army's three engineering disciplines, combat engineers, also known as "Sappers," enable the maneuverability of forces by applying mobility, counter-mobility, ...

JOINT BASE LEWIS-MCCHORD, Wash. — A new train-up within the 1-2 Stryker Brigade Combat Team out of Joint Base Lewis-McChord (JBLM) is preparing soldiers for the US Army's elite Sapper Leader Course ...

Yahalom operates in places where every step could hide an explosive and every tunnel could turn into a fight for survival. A ...

U.S. Marine Corps Lt. Col. Michelle I. Macander, then-commanding officer of 1st Combat Engineer Battalion, 1st Marine Division, sits with her family during a change of command ceremony in 2018. (Lance ...

Picturing a sky full of drones over their head, American sailors and Marines teamed with troops from the Latvian Army this month to turn a clearing in the woods into a network of trenches designed ...

U.S. Marines from 2nd Combat Engineer Battalion, 2nd Marine Division, trained in a combat town during the Sapper Leadership Course at Marine Corps Base Camp Lejeune on Nov. 18, 2025. The event put ...

One of the first women to sign up to become an Army combat engineer turned herself in when she was classified as a deserter after being absent without leave for 30 days. Pvt. Erika Lopez surrendered ...

Sailors Naval Construction Battalion 14 and Marines from 8th Engineer Support Battalion build out a trench designed to be reinforced against drones in Latvia. Picturing a sky full of drones over their ...