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Photo: BSC Winners

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.

2017 Best Sapper Competition – Rappel

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)