Over 150 Soldiers across the U.S. Army endured a week-long test to earn the Army’s Expert Field Medical Badge, from Aug. 15 through 26, 2022, at Wilderness Readiness Complex at Fort Carson.

and the Expert Field Medical Badge (EFMB), according to a June 14 Army news release. Soldiers in the infantry and Special Forces career fields will continue to take the EIB, and those in the ...

Soldiers who've both served in combat and mastered their job skills will soon earn a new badge recognizing both achievements. The Master Combat Badge shows that the soldier wearing the new device ...

You’ve heard of the Expert Infantryman Badge and Expert Field Medical Badge, as well as the Combat Infantryman Badge and its cousin, the Combat Action Badge. Now, the Army is toying with the ...

Two other badges are awarded along similar lines to other MOSs: the Combat Medical and Expert Field Medical devices for medics; and the Expert Soldier and Combat Action awards for all other Army MOSs.

Since 2019, 6,626 Expert Infantry Badges and 850 Expert Field Medical badges have been awarded. But for Army leadership, the badge itself is secondary, with the test and all the preparation for it ...

The badges should begin appearing in military clothing stores by the end of the summer. The badge is the first non-medical combat distinction to honor women who are caught in battle during U.S ...

However, the news website Task and Purpose reported that the Army will introduce three versions: the Master Combat Infantryman Badge, the Master Combat Medical Badge and the Master Combat Action ...

Emily Compliment earned her Expert Field Medical Badge, considered by many to be ... reporter for Stars and Stripes who writes about military health, legal and social issues.

WASHINGTON — Set between the Adirondack Mountains and the Great Lakes, Fort Drum’s forests posed an imposing obstacle for medical Soldiers last September while testing their field skills ...