The Army retrained thousands of soldiers — tankers, engineers, artillerymen — to perform as infantry in Iraq's urban hot spots. But part of the fallout is an intense internal debate over who ...

Rep. Troy Nehls (R-Texas) is no longer wearing his Combat Infantryman Badge (CIB) after the Army revised his military record to show he did not qualify for the badge he often wears on his lapel. When ...

Rep. Troy Nehls (R-Texas), an ardent supporter of former President Donald Trump, is facing allegations of “stolen valor” as he continues to wear a Combat Infantryman Badge pin on his suit ...

The only troops specifically not eligible for the CAB are infantry soldiers and medics, who qualify for the Combat Infantryman Badge and Combat Medical Badge, respectively. The country's largest ...

The Master Combat Badge shows that the soldier wearing the new device has had both a combat award and achieved expert qualification in their military occupational specialty, Sergeant Major of the ...

Any Army soldier who has seen active combat while in Iraq or Afghanistan may now receive a new "Combat Action Badge," making tens of thousands of soldiers who are not in the infantry ranks ...

By contrast, Cossette and 181 other infantrymen from 2nd Batallion, 325th Airborne Infantry Regiment, 2nd Brigade Combat Team, 82nd Airborne Division are currently competing for a badge that is ...

A Combat Infantryman Badge, established in 1943, is awarded to infantrymen who engaged in active ground combat for the US. “In 2023, 14 years after my retirement, suddenly, the Department of the ...

Combat Action Badge eligibility is part of an overall review of the military awards system ordered in March 2014 by then-Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel. Hagel’s directive was partly influenced by ...

By: Task and Purpose Soldiers with the 3rd Cavalry Regiment from Fort Hood, Texas, returned from a deployment to Iraq, Syria, and Kuwait, in February 60 combat badges richer.