When clearing through a room, a soldier is always at risk of hand-to-hand combat, though it can happen on the open battlefield, too. The Modern Army Combatives Program (MACP) is one of the building ...

The Desert Warrior Week 2024 combatives championship came to a close on May 23 and one of the competitors is blowing up on social media. Staff Sgt. Diane Kancauski ate a hard slap to the face like it ...

SEMBACH, Germany - The 230th Military Police Company "Warmasters" held a combatives tournament Oct. 25 on Sembach Kaserne here to find the best hand-to-hand fighter in the company. The tournament had ...

Martial artists from the Army’s Camp Humphreys, Osan Air Base and surrounding communities in South Korea went head-to-head recently at the 2nd Combat Aviation Brigade Invitational Combatives ...

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 ...

FORT BENNING, Ga., (Oct. 2, 2013) -- Perseverance and mental toughness are two of the qualities Soldiers seek to possess while in the military. Sgt. William Tucker of D Troop, 1st Squadron, 16th ...

ALEXANDRIA, WESTMORELAND COUNTY, WELL BEHIND THE SCENES LOOK AT POLICE TRAINING THAT COULD SAVE LIVES. THIS AFTERNOON, WE’RE SEEING HOW LOCAL OFFICERS ARE LEARNING TACTICS FOR DE-ESCALATION. HERE’S ...

At the combatives pit, eight companies from the Class of 2014 received a four-hour block of instruction from a team of West Point cadets on a series of passes, sweeps and submissions. The training ...

Army National Guard guardsman Kailey Carlson, a diminutive PhD candidate in psychology who plans to specialize in treating female vets affected by rape and post-traumatic stress syndrome, is being ...

FORT HOOD, Texas -- "Let's get ready to rumble," bellowed Brig. Gen. Dean Milner, III Corps and Fort Hood, deputy commanding general (Canada). And with that statement, the 2012 U.S. Army Combatives ...

The Army says proficiency in hand-to-hand combat is a solid part of the modern soldier's foundation. In a world full of high-tech weapons and remote-controlled hardware, still knowing how to kick ass ...