{"id":71109,"date":"2017-03-26T10:44:45","date_gmt":"2017-03-26T14:44:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=71109"},"modified":"2017-03-26T10:49:31","modified_gmt":"2017-03-26T14:49:31","slug":"eab-testing-to-be-mandatory","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=71109","title":{"rendered":"EAB testing to be mandatory"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><center><a href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?attachment_id=71110\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-71110\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/arm-eab-cab-badge-new-horizontal-300x151.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"151\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-71110\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/arm-eab-cab-badge-new-horizontal-300x151.png 300w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/arm-eab-cab-badge-new-horizontal-500x252.png 500w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/arm-eab-cab-badge-new-horizontal-600x300.png 600w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/arm-eab-cab-badge-new-horizontal.png 616w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/center><\/p>\n<p>According to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.military.com\/daily-news\/2017\/03\/24\/army-to-require-soldiers-to-test-for-expert-action-badge.html\">Military.com<\/a>, the Army is planning to make mandatory an annual test for the Expert Action Badge, a non-combat version of the Combat Action Badge at brigade level similar to the annual Expert Infantry Badge testing for infantrymen and the Expert Field Medical Badge for medics.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;The idea was that you model the EAB program off of those two established programs,&#8221; [Army Training and Doctrine Command&#8217;s Command Sgt. Maj. David Davenport] said, describing that the test will consist of physical challenges such as the road march, the Army Physical Fitness test and the land-navigation test.<\/p>\n<p>For the skill evaluation portion of the EAB test, the Army plans to have soldiers demonstrate expertise in the 39 Warrior Tasks and nine Battle Drills that all soldiers must know.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Because everyone needs a badge.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>According to Military.com, the Army is planning to make mandatory an annual test for the Expert &hellip; <a title=\"EAB testing to be mandatory\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=71109\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">EAB testing to be mandatory<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":71110,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[232],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-71109","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-army-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71109","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=71109"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71109\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/71110"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=71109"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=71109"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=71109"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}