The new Master Combat Badge will blend the Combat Infantryman Badge, Combat Medical Badge or Combat Action Badge with their expert counterparts. Service planners expect the badges to be available ...

After graduation, Viti deployed as a platoon leader in Afghanistan, earning a bronze star and a combat action badge. After retiring ... I think it needs to be a very transparent and honest ...

the Master Combat Medical Badge and the Master Combat Action Badge. They will look like existing combat badges, except the wreath depicted on them will be gold rather than silver, Task and Purpose ...

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 indicates that the soldier wearing the new ...

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.

The Combat Action Ribbon, or CAR, is awarded to sailors and Marines who actively participated in ground or surface action, and the Navy has rarely given it to sailors since the 1991 Gulf War.

Nehls, R-Richmond, has been under intense scrutiny over his display of a combat service badge that the Army revoked and removed from his service record last year. Nehls, who represents a large ...

Rep. Troy Nehls, R-Texas, has faced scrutiny over his display of a combat service badge that the Army revoked and removed from his service record last year. (Mariam Zuhaib/AP) Under fire for ...

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.

A veteran's watchdog group told KHOU 11 News last month that because Nehls served as a civil affairs officer in Iraq and Afghanistan, he only qualified for a combat action badge, not a CIB.

House Freedom Caucus Rep. Troy Nehls has been seen donning a Combat Infantryman Badge on his lapel, touting his service in Afghanistan — even though the award was revoked, the Army confirmed.

Rep. Troy Nehls (R-Texas) does not qualify for a Combat Infantryman Badge (CIB) that he claims and often wears on his lapel, according to the Army. Nehls served as an infantryman, an engineer ...