JOINT BASE SAN ANTONIO – CAMP BULLIS, Texas – The Expert Field Medical Badge, commonly known as the EFMB, is one of the most rigorous and highly sought-after U.S. Army special skill badges. Of the ...

FORT MCCOY, Wis. — U.S. Army Soldiers (49 of them) from active, Guard, and Reserve forces journeyed to Fort McCoy compete in the 2023 U.S. Army Reserve Medical Command (AR-MEDCOM) Expert Field Medical ...

WARRIOR BASE, South Korea — Last week, 329 soldiers gathered at this muddy training range just south of the Demilitarized Zone to take on one of the Army’s most grueling and technical tests: ...

FORT MCCOY, Wis. (WEAU) - Soldiers from across the nation are training at Fort McCoy - all trying to earn one of the Army’s most prestigious distinctions. “All the candidates here are working towards ...

Staff Sgt. Wai Kin Tee receives his Expert Soldier Badge on Oct. 3, 2025, in Baumholder, Germany. (Sgt. Griffin Payne/Army) Soldiers of the 21st Theater Sustainment Command recently undertook two of ...

About 180 service members stepped into formation on Joint Base McGuire-Dix-Lakehurst March 23, accepting the challenge to compete for the Expert Field Medical Badge, one of the most coveted ...

This article first appeared in the Stars and Stripes Europe edition, Aug. 26, 2002. It is republished unedited in its original form. Grueling course singles out the medics to wear ‘experts badge’ CAMP ...

Forty-six Soldiers received the Expert Field Medical Badge at Joint Base McGuire-Dix-Lakehurst in New Jersey April 27, culminating the one-week competition organized by the U.S. Army Medical Research ...

On Friday morning, 22 soldiers at Fort Carson were honored during the Expert Field Medical Badge ceremony, an exceptional achievement in the military medical community. To graduate from the EFMB ...

During an emotional finale to a grueling 13-day course designed to identify those who possess the highest level of professional skill and proficiency, only a few had demonstrated that they earned the ...

Beginning in October 2019, the U.S. Army plans to require soldiers to compete for the Expert Action Badge, an annual physical and skill-based test similar to the prestigious Expert Infantryman Badge ...