While the bald eagle is a national emblem, the 101st’s screaming eagle insignia pays homage to a genuine war bird from the ...

Soldiers assigned to the new Army Futures Command have both a new shoulder sleeve insignia and distinctive unit insignia. Both carry a central theme, an anvil, as a symbol of the unit's motto "Forge ...

Jim Carpenter asks when the Navy's submarine combat badge was approved and what its history is. The Navy approved the badge early in World War II to recognize service on a combat patrol during which ...

I had a chance to see the Dignity Memorial Vietnam Wall at Bluebell Beach last week. "The Wall" is a 240-foot replica of the Vietnam Memorial in Washington, D.C. As you'd expect, seeing the wall is an ...

But while in the field, the commander of Fort Carson's 1st Stryker Brigade Combat Team wants soldiers' uniforms to be bare to the bone, only showcasing last name, rank, American flag, U.S. Army tape ...

STUTTGART, Germany - Ten soldiers from the German military, the Bundeswehr, earned U.S. Army Marksmanship Qualification Badges at Panzer Kaserne in Böblingen Oct. 18, while strengthening ...

Eligibility for the patch “does not authorize pay entitlements such as hostile fire pay, imminent danger pay, or combat zone tax exclusion,” the Army noted. United States Army soldiers who were ...

FILE: A soldier receives his 3rd Infantry Division combat patch during a combat patch ceremony at Forward Operating Base Smart, Afghanistan, Dec. 24, 2012. (Airman Patrice Clarke/U.S. Air Force) U.S.

You earn it, you keep it, you wear it. That is how many soldiers value their combat patches, badges and insignia that display who they are and what they've done. But while in the field, the commander ...

This Memorial Day weekend, Soldiers of the 3rd Sustainment Command (Expeditionary) marked their deployment to Afghanistan, May 24, by receiving their combat patch during a ceremony here. Brig. Gen.