Spc. Chad Truelove, a Dimone, Iowa, native, listens to an instructor at the Expert Infantryman Badge train-up for instructions at the hand grenade lane on Sept 16. Truelove, a Paratrooper from Company A, 2nd Battalion, 325th Airborne Infantry Regimen...

Pfc. Enzio Goeble, a Brooklyn, N.Y., native with 2nd Battalion, 325th Airborne Infantry Regiment, 2nd Brigade Combat Team, 82nd Airborne Division, looks through a set of binoculars to help him prepare a Range Card for an M240B Machine Gun during the ...

Spc. Matthew Young, a Winston Salem, N.C. native with Company C, 2nd Battalion, 325th Airborne Infantry Regiment, 2nd Brigade Combat Team, 82nd Airborne Division, practices moving under direct fire during the train- up for the Expert Infantryman Badg...

Spc. Joseph McCain (left), of Company B, 2nd Battalion, 325th Airborne Infantry Regiment, 2nd Brigade Combat Team, 82nd Airborne Division, disassembles an M240B machine gun while grader Sgt. Stan Roberson looks on during practice for the Expert Infan...

EIB candidates look on while Spc. Benjamin Bishop (foreground), of Headquarters Company, 1st Battalion, 504th Parachute Infantry Regiment, currently attached to the 2nd Brigade Combat Team, 82nd Airborne Division, uses a mannequin to demonstrate the ...

Clayton, N.J. native Spc. David Bruce (left), of Company B, 2nd Battalion, 325th Airborne Infantry Regiment, 2nd Brigade Combat Team, 82nd Airborne Division, grades Seattle, Wash. native Staff Sgt. Robert Gordon, with Army Materiel Command, as he per...