It is time for Infantry leaders and Soldiers to fully embrace the Modern Army Combatives Program (MACP). Few programs, if any, offer low-risk, high-reward training that cross several functions as ...

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 ...

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 ...

Military personnel from all branches of service assigned to Military District of Washington installations are invited to compete in the 2016 MDW Army Combatives Competition, Sept. 23 at the Myer ...

FORT MOORE, Ga. (WRBL) — For the morning, there wasn’t any pressure but that wouldn’t be for long. On Feb.7, Fort Moore soldiers who will take part in the Manuever Center of Excellence (MCoE) Infantry ...

FORT HOOD, Texas (KWTX) - Soldiers will compete Friday in the first Phantom Warrior Invitational combatives tournament in more than a decade at the Warrior Way Physical Fitness Center. May 1 marks the ...

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, ...

Remember what your mother taught you about hitting girls? Combatives instructor Spc. Teddra Rodriguez wants you to try, but you better be prepared to defend yourself. Rodriguez is the first female ...

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 ...