From cobras to gators, reptilian mascots and call signs appear on patches, aircraft and unit logos across every branch. Why?

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.

FORT CARSON, Colo. -- Soldiers from the 1st Space Battalion, 1st Space Brigade, U.S. Army Space and Missile Defense Command, received combat patches for their support to critical operations across the ...

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 ...

The soldiers who run the daily garrison details of nearly every Army base are swapping shoulder patches this week. In a series of “patching ceremonies,” garrison headquarters units at a wide range of ...

WASHINGTON — The commission charged with eliminating commemoration of the Confederacy in the U.S. military recommended Monday that the Army ban the flying of Confederate campaign streamers on unit ...

Video captured National Guard troops, some wearing patches appearing to be from Texas, arriving Tuesday at a suburban Chicago ...

FORT BENNING, Ga. — Just as the sun is coming up on a mild spring morning in Georgia, dozens of Army infantry recruits file off the bus and sprint 100 yards as drill instructors supply ample ...

Army Secretary Dan Driscoll joins soldiers from the 5th Squadron, 1st Cavalry Regiment, 1st Infantry Brigade Combat Team, 11th Airborne Division, during the squadron’s spur ride at the Black Rapids ...

The Army’s Mobile Protected Firepower vehicles are in many ways smaller, lighter versions of the service’s M1 Abrams main battle tanks, and are designed to give light infantry and airborne units more ...

Fake command posts, electromagnetic decoys and fast-moving mission control hubs are some of the ways the war in Ukraine has transformed U.S. Army training in Europe, according to a top American ...