After high school, he said ... career motivated him to the point that he joined the Marine Corps in 2011, he said. "I picked combat engineer as my [specialty] when I joined," the 21-year-old ...

The Sapper course is an intense four-week leadership school designed specifically for combat engineers ... "It's the hardest course I've ever done in my military career," said Staff Sgt.

Marine Corps Gunnery Sgt ... N.C., where she became one of only two female Marines to ever teach at the combat engineer school. Baker spent more than three years mentoring hundreds of young ...

1st Class Brandon Grajeda, who called this a “fantastic opportunity” to help show some of the Army’s newest combat engineers and bridge crewmen how the 31E military occupational specialty ...

Army%27s handling of combat engineer school for women a model for other ... among several dozen men struggling through one of the military's most physically demanding courses.

A few days after two women became the first female soldiers to pass the Army's grueling Ranger School ... into combat; gradually over the last several decades, more and more military roles ...

The U.S. military has been grappling for years with how best ... to be certified as a combat engineer. The combat engineer school opened up to women on Aug. 1, said Command Sgt. Major Alan ...

also wanted her chance to go combat. “9/11 happened when I went to engineer school,” she said on the Wednesday phone call. “Understanding that the Marine Corps that I joined had just ...

A few days after two women became the first female soldiers to pass the Army's grueling Ranger School ... into combat; gradually over the last several decades, more and more military roles ...