Holding up the first place Best Sapper trophy are 1st Lt. Luke Groom (right) and Staff Sgt. Carlos Jimenez (left), Team 20 from the 307th Brigade Engineer Battalion, Fort Bragg, North Carolina. Groom and Jimenez defeated 47 other two-man teams and trudged through severe weather during the three-day competition to earn the titles of 2017 Best Sapper.
A best Sapper competitor completes an Australian rappel as part of the 2017 Best Sapper Competition being held at Fort Leonard Wood, Missouri. (Photo credit: Michael Curtis, Visual Information Center)
1st Lt. Luke Groom from Fort Bragg, North Carolina, competing in the 2017 Best Sapper Competition at Fort Leonard Wood, Missouri, plots his points in the land navigation portion of the competition. (Photo credit: Michael Curtis, Visual Information Center)
Col. Tracy Lanier, U.S. Army Garrison Fort Leonard Wood commander, discusses ammunition used in the .50 Caliber Machine Gun with Rolla City Administrator John Butz during a community leaders tour of Fort Leonard Wood, April 20. (Photo credit: Marti Yoshida, Public Affairs Office)
