The Lacerda All-Army Combatives Championship tests the Army’s top hand-to-hand fighters in their skills learned in the service’s Combatives Program, which is meant to improve soldiers’ combat ...

Ft. Benning, Ga. (WRBL) – One of the most intense competitions during Infantry Week at Fort Benning in the Lacerda Cup. A three day tournament that features soldiers fighting using Army Combatives, ...

Sometimes you just feel like letting off a little steam. And this weekend, more than two hundred soldiers from all over the army did that at Fort Benning. It's a form of combat many thought would ...

FORT MOORE, Ga. (WTVM) - Infantry Week, less than a week from now on Fort Moore, will draw the best of the best soldiers from all over the world. News Leader 9 saw firsthand the training for the last ...

"Very few people have ever been killed with the bayonet or saber, but the fear of having their guts explored with cold steel in the hands of battle-maddened men has won many a fight." General George S ...

Spc. Christopher Weeks, master combatives trainer, helped facilitate level one instruction for about 90 Soldiers from across the installation, Wednesday, at the U.S. Army Combatives School at Fort ...

CAMP SMITH TRAINING SITE, Cortland Manor, NY--They train fighters at Camp Smith. New York National Guard Soldiers grapple with each other on the padded red, blue and black mat. Staff Sgt. Abismael ...

Sgt. John Medeiros and I are about the same size, except one of us is covered in muscles and tattoos and the other has on skinny jeans and is holding a tape recorder. We take ... soldiers that have ...

Fort Benning sent Soldiers who are combatives experts to Irvine, Calif., to compete in the Pan Am Jiu Jitsu Championships, hosted April 8-12 by the International Brazilian Jiu Jitsu Federation. Three ...

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 ...

Army Combatives trains soldiers in close quarters, hand to hand combat, and is a mixed martial form that combines Brazilian jiu-jitsu, boxing, clinch hitting, takedowns and ground fighting techniques.

The Adjutant General’s Cup combatives ended with a landslide victory for the Guam Army National Guard on Saturday. Army reps defeated their Guam Air National Guard rivals in all six classes, including ...