These various recommendations, if adopted, will combined overtake the Combat Action Badge (note, some in the CF claim that the CAB was never called a badge but is known as the Combat Action Insignia.

Canadian military leaders cancelled a proposed combat action badge in 2008 because they were worried soldiers in Afghanistan would risk their lives to attain the coveted honour, according to newly ...

Over the last year I had been asked by some Afghan veterans to check and see what was happening with the Combat Action Badge so I have done that on and off since April 2008. Hillier told Defence ...

The Army's new Combat Action Badge, which honors any soldier who sees combat during the global war on terrorism, is expected to be available by late summer or early fall, according to Army officials.