A female Army Ranger for the first time competed in the annual Best Ranger Competition, and her two-soldier team finished the ...

The Army recently approved the designs for both badges, which the service’s top enlisted leader first announced in October.

The badges will recognize proficiency in mariner operations at three different levels of skill and proficiency in mountaineering operations.

The design of the Mariner Badge includes the Transportation Corps’ “winged wheel,” which symbolizes rail transportation.