The Army is set to begin awarding Master Combat Badges, which will combine expert and traditional combat badges, next spring, according to an internal service memo reviewed by Military.com. For ...

The Army’s newest badges will be in soldiers’ hands very soon. Soldiers are expected to be able to purchase the Army’s new Master Combat Badges at Army and Air Force Exchange Service, or AAFES, ...

CAMP HUMPHREYS, South Korea – Two Soldiers from U.S. Army Garrison Humphreys earned the new Master Combat Infantryman Badge (MCIB), May 5, 2025. The MCIB is a recently introduced badge that recognizes ...

Military weapons are often introduced with bold promises like greater efficiency, revolutionary design, and battlefield dominance on paper. But war has a way of stripping those promises down to their ...

An Iowa National Guard airman who served a stint as an infantry soldier is now sporting a combat award that his former service introduced just a few months ago. Senior Master Sgt. Greg Cleghorn, the ...

The Army introduced the Master Combat Infantryman Badge earlier this year to recognize some of its most accomplished and dedicated soldiers. Last week, it went to an Air Force recipient. Senior Master ...

Since 2021, the U.S. Army and the Brazilian Army have conducted combined military exercises as part of Exercise Southern ...

The Army can raise the bar on minimum fitness standards for close-combat jobs and also must establish clear consequences for soldiers who fall short, according to the recommendations from a new study ...

Ten years ago, amid sometimes bitter debate, the first women began the Army's notoriously hard Ranger infantry training program. The same year, combat jobs across the military were opened to female ...

Russia is increasingly relying on large infantry assault tactics in Ukraine. One Russian milblogger said there was about to be a "real renaissance of infantry combat." Other milbloggers said the ...

Combat roles in the Marines have had gender-neutral requirements since 2015. A new policy extends that rule to fitness test scores.