Sgt. Hailey Falk, a combat engineer in the 101st Airborne Division, receives her Sapper tab on Dec. 7, 2018. Falk is the first enlisted woman to complete the Sapper Leader Course. (Stephen ...

She is the 135th woman to graduate from Ranger School since 2015, and just became the 8th woman to also finish Sapper school. Corcoran earned the Jungle tab in late 2022 by completing the Jungle ...

While the majority of Soldiers who wear the Sapper tab on their shoulder also sport the engineer castle on their dress blues, not all do. U.S. Army Sapper school: Not just for Engineers By U.S ...

The Army announced Friday that the service's first female enlisted soldier has graduated from the physically challenging Sapper Leader Course.. Sgt. Hailey Falk, who is assigned to B Company, 39th ...

Fort Leonard Wood's Sapper course, the only Sapper school in the Army, ... Students who graduate from the course, which has been open to female soldiers since 1999, earn the coveted Sapper tab.

Women are not allowed to serve in certain combat occupations -- but that's not stopping female engineers from taking on the grueling 28-day Sapper Leader Course, becoming Sapper qualified and ...

The Sapper Tab is very well-deserved, he added. The competition has been hosted each year since 2005, with the exception of 2013 and 2014, due to the sequestration of funds.

The tab trifecta places the 25-year-old soldier in rarefied air. Corcoran is the 135th woman to earn a Ranger tab and only the 8th woman to be double tabbed with Ranger and Sapper, according to an ...