2011 Best Sapper Competition

摘要

The competition included 3 days, 21 events, 37 teams, and only 1 mission—to become the Army's best sapper. Engineer Soldiers traveled from across the Engineer Regiment to Fort Leonard Wood, Missouri, to compete in the seventh annual Best Sapper Competition. The six-phase competition kicked off at 0400 on 7 April 2011 with an unusual physical fitness test that featured pushups; sit-ups; a 3-mile buddy run while wearing individual body armor with small arm protective insert plates and carrying a dummy M-4 carbine; and "heel hooks," which made their debut at the competition. In this exercise, Soldiers hang from a pull-up bar, raise their legs to lock their feet on the bar, and then return to the starting position.