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, ...

A class of more than 150 junior officers from Maneuver Captains Career Course Team 2 capped off its Level 1 Army Combatives training with a tournament June 3. Champions emerged in six weight ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

"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 ...

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.

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 ...