How to Earn a Combat Infantry Badge (5 Steps)

Enlist or obtain commissioned officer status in the grade of colonel or below in the United States Army. The Combat Infantry Badge is a military award and is awarded only to soldiers.
Qualify and hold as an enlisted soldier an Infantry Military Occupational Specialty (11 series) or one of the qualifying Special Forces Military Occupational Specialties; 18B, 18E, 18F or 18Z. Qualify and hold as a commissioned Infantry or Special Forces officer in the grade of colonel or below, a Specific Skill Identifier (SSI) series 11 or 18.
Obtain assignment to 'an infantry, ranger or special forces unit of brigade, regimental or smaller size' during a period such unit is 'engaged in active ground combat.'
Be 'personally present and under hostile fire while serving in an assigned infantry or special forces unit while the unit is actively engaged in ground combat with the enemy. Battle participation credit alone is not sufficient. The unit must have been in contact with the enemy.'
Meet all of the basic requirements for award of the CIB as a service member of another branch of the U.S. Armed Forces or as a service member of a foreign military service and perform the equivalent of infantry or Special Forces duties while assigned or attached to a U.S. Army infantry or Special Forces unit engaged in active ground combat.
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