The badges will recognize proficiency in mariner operations at three different levels of skill and proficiency in mountaineering operations.

The demand for contracting support has never been higher, and Soldiers with technical and tactical skills in theater continue ...

The Army recently approved the designs for both badges, which the service’s top enlisted leader first announced in October.

But it wasn’t “authorized for wear cross the Army enterprise” until Wednesday. The Institute of Heraldry, which oversees insignia for U.S. military branches and government agencies ...