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, ...

LANDSTUHL, Germany -- The deep thumps of the human body, the grunts of discomfort and the exhaustion of combat are all components of the Army's Combatives Program, a hand-to-hand combat program which ...

FORT BRAGG, N.C. -- "In a life or death situation you need to be able to react instantaneously while under pressure," said Master Sgt. Tim, 3rd Special Forces Group (Airborne), lead combatives ...

Soldiers will compete Friday in the first Phantom Warrior Invitational combatives tournament in more than a decade at the Warrior Way Physical Fitness Center.

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 ...

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 ...

Despite the cancellation of the all-Army Combatives Championship in July due to budget cuts, Fort Hood soldiers have not stopped excelling in the program that participants said is more important than ...

Military District of Washington service members participated in a combatives competition at the Fort Myer Fitness Center Sept. 22. Over 25 service members filled the brackets of six weight classes as ...