Hercules Crew Receives Air Force Combat Action Medal After RPG Attack. An aircrew assigned to the 774th Expeditionary Airlift Squadron poses for a group photo in Afghanistan, Sept. 2019.

In recent days, I have written articles for The National Interest on several of the U.S. Armed Forces’ Special Operations ...

Medal of Honor comes for action in 1965. Virginian, 83, among first Black leaders of a Special Forces team in combat. March 3, 2023 at 4:17 a.m. by DARLENE SUPERVILLE The Associated Press ...

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.

Chapman, an Air Force combat controller, was posthumously awarded the Medal of Honor in August 2018 for his bravery during the 2002 Battle of Takur Ghar in Afghanistan, in which he charged enemy ...

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.

Air Force Combat Controllers trace their roots back to the Army Pathfinders of World War II; the CCT’s present-day motto, “First There,” pays homage to these roots.