Accelerate Change: Empowered Airmen

We live in a world that is driven by rapidly changing technology and an environment that includes aggressive and capable global competitors. Airmen are key to cutting unnecessary bureaucracy, recognizing and understanding our competition, and thinking of creative ways we can reshape the design of our Air Force. The Air Force must accelerate, must change, and must prepare for the future!

This page is dedicated towards highlighting the accomplishments of our talented Airmen at all levels and to show the impact they can make when they are informed and empowered to problem solve and make smart recommendations and decisions.

 

 

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Video by Greg Mason
USARC E3B at Fort McCoy WI.
Fort McCoy Multimedia Visual Information Branch
May 2, 2025 | 5:27
The U.S. Army Reserve Command (USARC) held the E3B event that combines the Expert Soldier Badge (ESB), Expert Infantry Badge (EIB), and Expert Field Medical Badge (EFMB) at Fort McCoy WI from April 27 to May 10, 2025. Soldiers from all three U.S. Army components, reserve, national guard and active attended the E3B event. Candidates are tasked with completing ten patrol lanes, which require candidates to perform patrol tasks such map reading, personnel searching, visual signaling, movement under fire, radio operations and Chemical Biological Radiological and Nuclear (CBRN) gear. The candidates must successfully complete all ten tasks and only have one no go for the day. Over 100 candidates converged on Ft. McCoy to undergo rigorous train-up and testing to try and earn the ESB, EIB, or EFMB. Once all testing was completed, 14 Soldiers emerged as 2025 badge recipients having satisfactorily completed all required tasks: 6 ESB, 3 EIB, and 5 EFMB. (U.S. Army Video by Greg Mason, Multi-media Branch, Fort McCoy, Wis.)
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