On Friday, May 23, the Second Class Petty Officer Association planted several flags, with some displaying a photo of a fallen ...

The Defense Department will start screening troops for gender dysphoria during their annual physicals as part of the agency-wide effort to kick transgender service members out of the U.S. military, ...

MacDonald served in the U.S. Army, where he was deployed to Iraq ... including the Bronze Star Medal and Combat Medical Badge. A graduate of Philadelphia College of Osteopathic Medicine, MacDonald ...

The Army has announced the establishment of the Mountaineering Badge, making a long-recognized ... moving small units over hazardous terrain, medical evacuations and marksmanship skills.

While the order did not immediately exclude anyone from military service, it gave the Pentagon 60 days to update its policy on medical standards and 30 days to come forward with revised guidance ...

If removing sex-based distinctions from the military was an experiment, the results—in my view—have been positive and crystal clear. The Combat Medical Badge (CMB) is one of the least known but most ...

In effect, the combat and expert infantryman badges were meant for infantrymen to stand apart from the rest of the Army. The Expert Medical Badge was created in 1965. In 2005, the Combat Action ...

The new Royal Army Medical Service is a combination of the ... "So a person can step forward with their competency rather than their cap badge as a start point. It's a much more modern way of ...

and an expert badge (EIB) for their military occupational specialty (MOS). An equivalent one was also announced for medics who hold the Expert Field Medical and Combat Medical devices, as was one for ...

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 ...

The Army plans to award the Master Combat Infantryman Badge, the Master Combat Medical Badge and the Master Combat Action Badge. Weimer also said that the service is redesigning a Mountaineering ...

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.