Hot on the heels of the ALARACT announcing the new Army Mountaineering badge, the design has leaked via LinkedIn and it features a Ram’s Head.
Here are a couple of points:
– Guidelines should be ‘official’ in 60 days, per the message.
– 120 days or so until they’re available for purchase.
– This should cover any Echo Qualified Soldier.
Geez, I can’t believe I’m finally the old guy who would just prefer the limited badges and tabs we had going into the GWOT.
OK, gotta say it clearly looks like a rams head, and not like some SciFi movie alien like the current device
lol
Well the last one was called the “Princess Leia Bage”…
Makes me think of Steppenwolf character from “Justice League” movie
Back in December when they showed three possible designs for this badge I thought they were awful. I posted:
“if you really need to change the badge, put the the rams head in full side profile. The ram to use should be the Rocky Mountain Bighorn Sheep which is native to Colorado. Camp Hale Colorado is where the 10th Mountain received its mountain training. You could also incorporate the two skis shown in design # 2. That would satisfy the current Ram haters but still pay homage to the history of U.S. Army military mountaineering.”
It’s not exactly what I suggested, but its close. Needless to say I think they got this right. Looks pretty good.
So is there clarity on the qualification requirements for this badge? Is it just BMMC or is it BMMC and AMMC? Also is this a permanent award or do you have to be assigned to an E Billet to be able to wear it?
The Army has not done an adequate job of defining award criteria.