Sapper Tab

Sapper Tab

Full Color Sapper Tab
Awarded by United States Army
Type Tab
Awarded for Completion of the Sapper Leader Course
Status Currently awarded
Statistics
Established June 28, 2004[1]
First awarded Retroactive to June 14, 1985[1]
Last awarded Current
Precedence
Next (higher) Ranger Tab[2]
Earning the Sapper Tab
Official U.S. Army video about the Sapper Tab

The Sapper Tab is a military badge of the United States Army which was authorized on June 28, 2004 by the Army Chief of Staff, General Peter Schoomaker.

To be awarded the Sapper Tab, a service member may or may not hold the military occupation specialty code (MOS) designation as a Combat Engineer (Sapper), but must have graduated from the Sapper Leader Course (SLC), which is operated by the U.S. Army Engineer School at Fort Leonard Wood, Missouri. The school falls under HHC, 35th Engineer Battalion, 1st Engineer Brigade. This award is retroactive back to the graduates of the first SLC on June 14, 1985.[1]

The full color tab is 2 3/8 inches (6.03 cm) long, 11/16 inch (1.75 cm) wide, with a red background and a 1/8 inch (.32 cm) red border and the word "SAPPER" inscribed in white letters 5/16 inch (.79 cm) high. The woodland subdued tab is identical, except the background is olive drab and the word "SAPPER" is in black letters. The desert subdued tab has a khaki background with the word “SAPPER” in spice brown letters.

It is currently one of four permanent individual skill tabs (as compared to a badge) authorized for wear by the U.S. Army. In order of precedence they are the President's Hundred Tab, the Special Forces Tab, the Ranger Tab, and the Sapper Tab. However, only three tabs may be worn at one time (not including tabs that are part of the shoulder sleeve insignia such as Airborne or Mountain).[3]

To wear the Sapper Tab, a soldier must graduate from the Sapper Leader Course (SLC) which is operated by the U.S. Army Engineer School at Fort Leonard Wood, Missouri. The Sapper Leader Course is a 28-day course designed to train joint-service leaders in small unit tactics, leadership skills, and tactics required to perform as part of a combined arms team. The course is open to enlisted soldiers in the grades of E-4 (P) (in the Army, specialist on the list for promotion to sergeant) E-5, and above, cadets, and officers O-3 (Army, captain) and below. Students can come from any combat or combat support branch of the service, but priority is given to engineer, cavalry, and infantry soldiers.[4]

See also

References

  1. 1 2 3 Code of Federal Regulations, Title 32 - National Defense, Section 578.100 - Sapper Tab, dated 1 July 2008, last accessed 16 May 2015
  2. ↑ Army Regulation 600-8-22 Military Awards (24 June 2013). Table 8-1, U.S. Army Badges and Tabs: Orders of precedence. p. 120
  3. ↑ http://armypubs.army.mil/epubs/pdf/r670_1.pdf
  4. ↑ Sapper Course, US Army, archived from the original on 9 September 2006

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