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Home (left) 1st Lt. Edward Colon and (right) 2nd Lt. Leah Mullenix, Team 23, 326th Brigade Engineer Battalion, 1st Brigade Combat Team, 101st Airborne Division (Air Assault), complete an engineering skill’s test during day two of the Best Sapper Competition at Fort Leonardwood, Mo., April 20, 2016. The competition is described as “50 teams, 50 miles, and 50 hours” of all-encompassing engineering tasks from tactical obstacle planning, road crater emplacement, and urban breaching. (U.S. Army photo courtesy of Fort Leonardwood Public Affairs) (left) 1st Lt. Edward Colon and (right) 2nd Lt. Leah Mullenix, Team 23, 326th Brigade Engineer Battalion, 1st Brigade Combat Team, 101st Airborne Division (Air Assault), complete an engineering skill’s test during day two of the Best Sapper Competition at Fort Leonardwood, Mo., April 20, 2016. The competition is described as “50 teams, 50 miles, and 50 hours” of all-encompassing engineering tasks from tactical obstacle planning, road crater emplacement, and urban breaching. (U.S. Army photo courtesy of Fort Leonardwood Public Affairs)

(left) 1st Lt. Edward Colon and (right) 2nd Lt. Leah Mullenix, Team 23, 326th Brigade Engineer Battalion, 1st Brigade Combat Team, 101st Airborne Division (Air Assault), complete an engineering skill’s test during day two of the Best Sapper Competition at Fort Leonardwood, Mo., April 20, 2016. The competition is described as “50 teams, 50 miles, and 50 hours” of all-encompassing engineering tasks from tactical obstacle planning, road crater emplacement, and urban breaching. (U.S. Army photo courtesy of Fort Leonardwood Public Affairs)

(left) 1st Lt. Edward Colon and (right) 2nd Lt. Leah Mullenix, Team 23, 326th Brigade Engineer Battalion, 1st Brigade Combat Team, 101st Airborne Division (Air Assault), complete an engineering skill’s test during day two of the Best Sapper Competition at Fort Leonardwood, Mo., April 20, 2016. The competition is described as “50 teams, 50 miles, and 50 hours” of all-encompassing engineering tasks from tactical obstacle planning, road crater emplacement, and urban breaching. (U.S. Army photo courtesy of Fort Leonardwood Public Affairs)

(left) 1st Lt. Edward Colon and (right) 2nd Lt. Leah Mullenix, Team 23, 326th Brigade Engineer Battalion, 1st Brigade Combat Team, 101st Airborne Division (Air Assault), complete an engineering skill’s test during day two of the Best Sapper Competition at Fort Leonardwood, Mo., April 20, 2016. The competition is described as “50 teams, 50 miles, and 50 hours” of all-encompassing engineering tasks from tactical obstacle planning, road crater emplacement, and urban breaching. (U.S. Army photo courtesy of Fort Leonardwood Public Affairs)

2nd Lt. Leah Mullenix, Team 23, 326th Brigade Engineer Battalion, 1st Brigade Combat Team, 101st Airborne Division (Air Assault), crawls under barbed wire with her individual assigned weapon during a low crawl event of the “x-mile” portion of the Best Sapper Competition at Fort Leonard Wood, Mo., April 21, 2016. The x-mile was the final phase of the three-day competition in which competitors had to complete a series of tasks in the quickest time possible. Mullenix was the first female, Army-wide, to complete the three-day competition and place in the top ten teams. (U.S. Army photo courtesy of Fort Leonardwood Public Affairs)

2nd Lt. Leah Mullenix (left) and 1st Lt. Edward Colon (right), Team 23, 326th Brigade Engineer Battalion, 1st Brigade Combat Team, 101st Airborne Division (Air Assault), haul their poncho raft out of Engineer lake during the swim event of the Best Sapper Competition at Fort Leonard Wood, Mo., April 19, 2016. Sappers pulled a raft carrying their individual weapon and full ruck sack. Once out of the water, they had to reassemble their ruck and complete a five-mile foot march. (U.S. Army photo courtesy of Fort Leonardwood Public Affairs)