Surrounded by hundreds of new U.S. Army recruits who lined the track right outside the 35th Combat Engineering Battalion’s barracks on Fort Leonard Wood, 29-year-old Hunter Young gained some respect ...

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 ...

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 ...

The Army is seeking 300 lieutenants from oversaturated combat arms fields to voluntarily transfer into understaffed roles. Lieutenants currently branched in armor, infantry, combat engineer and field ...

The Army is asking for about 300 lieutenants serving in combat arms branches to switch into support roles as it seeks to avoid an unbalanced future officer force, service officials said. The ...

The Army can raise the bar on minimum fitness standards for close-combat jobs and also must establish clear consequences for soldiers who fall short, according to the recommendations from a new study ...