It’s only been a few months since the newly assembled Fort Drum Combatives Team started training together. Now, ...

FORT LEWIS, Wash. - Though people sometimes compare the war in Iraq, to the Vietnam conflict, the homes and buildings of Iraq and the deserts that blanket most of the Arabian Gulf region, stand in ...

There’s an assumption, fed by movies and a romanticized view of war, that every American military member is an e-lite hand-to-hand ninja, martial artist, and/or dynamo in the Octagon. While there are ...

Any soldier will tell you that having combatives training or not can mean the difference between life and death when engaged in a hand-to-hand combat situation. The 3rd Heavy Brigade Combat Team, 3rd ...

Pretzel shaped maneuvers, head locks and tapping out are all techniques that make up the Modern Army Combative training. The purpose of this training is to provide Soldiers close quarters and ...