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Fort Stewart sending first all-female team to Best Sapper Competition


By COREY DICKSTEIN | STARS AND STRIPES Published: April 8, 2021
ATLANTA A pair of Fort Stewart, Ga.-based engineering officers is set to become the first all-female team to compete for the title of the Army s best-skilled combat engineering duo next month in Missouri.
The 3rd Infantry Division will send the all-female team of 1st Lt. Trish Burden and 2nd Lt. Amanda Atkinson to the Army’s Best Sapper Competition May 1-4 at Fort Leonard Wood, Army officials said. Burden and Atkinson are engineering officers with the 3rd ID’s 9th Engineer Battalion, 2nd Armored Brigade Combat Team.
“It s an honor to compete and represent our unit, and even if we weren t the first all-female team just to go is a very, very good opportunity for us,” said Burden, who commissioned into the Army in 2017. “We’re really proud to be able to do that, [and] to show other Sappers that it is possible to go as an all-female team is exciting.” ....

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