Posted on 02/13/2010 2:44:48 PM PST by darrellmaurina
FORT LEONARD WOOD, Mo. (Feb. 13, 2010) — Servicemembers who think they’re some of the toughest military engineers are being invited to compete in this spring’s “Best Sapper” competition from April 17 to 21 at Fort Leonard Wood. The competition, which is the Army engineer equivalent to the Army’s “Best Ranger” competition, is open not only to soldiers in the 21-series MOS engineer category but also other soldiers, sailors, airmen or Marines who have earned the “Sapper” shoulder tab. The event “will test the mental and physical stamina, as well as the tactical and technical skills of the participants,” according to an announcement to brigade-level commanders by Engineer School Commandant Brig. Gen. Bryan Watson. “As much as deployments allow, we would like to see all Sappers who wish to, compete and be recognized as the ‘Best Sapper’ team,” Watson said in his invitation.
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whoa..
I was a combat engineer and trained at Leonard Wood and don’t recall ever being referred to a a sapper. I thought a sapper was an engineer trained well enough in explosives to actually live through working with them.
sappers rule!
We specialized in forced labor.
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