New Combat Badges to Be Ready Soon. May 30, 2005. By Josh White. The Army's new Combat Action Badge, which honors any soldier who sees combat during the global war on terrorism, ...

The service also awards expert badges to medics and the expert soldier badge to non-infantry soldiers. The Army plans to award the Master Combat Infantryman Badge, the Master Combat Medical Badge ...

The badge is the first non-medical combat distinction to honor women who are caught in battle during U.S. wars, largely because women are not assigned to frontline combat duties.

Morgan received a Combat Action Badge while on deployment in Syria, where she encountered enemy fire. (Photo Credit: U.S. Army photo by Spc. Salvador Castro) VIEW ORIGINAL. FORT DRUM, N.Y ...

Back in the winter of 2005, when Randy and I were embedded with Oregon's 3/116th in Kirkuk, the Army announced it would create the Combat Action Badge. It's been awarded since then to folks who ...

As you likely know now the Canadian Forces has decided against issuing a Combat Action Badge that was promised to the troops by then CDS Gen. Rick Hillier. I didn’t realize it until a few days ...

Indiana National Guard soldiers who deployed to Kosovo in 2022 received a combat patch during a ceremony at Camp Atterbury on ...

Sgt. Maj. of the Army Michael R. Weimer announced that a new Master Combat Badge is being rolled out for combat veterans who also have earned skills-related honors. Weimer also announced that the ...

The Combat Action Badge — created in 2005 — is for Army soldiers outside those job fields but who are also "actively engaging or being engaged by the enemy," according to U.S. Army publications.

Instead, Nehls was awarded the Combat Action Badge, which is given to soldiers outside those job fields who are “actively engaging or being engaged by the enemy,” according to Army guidelines.

For example, the Combat Infantry Badge is awarded to infantry soldiers and Army Special Forces who’ve experienced direct action against an enemy.