Spc. Brad Babb, a Butte, Mo., native from Company C, 1st Battalion 325th Airborne Infantry Regiment, 2nd Brigade Combat Team, 82nd Airborne Division, practices the AT-4 firing and misfiring procedures during the Expert Infantryman Badge train-up on ...

Spc. Mike Segars, a Roanoke Rapids, N.C., native from A Troop, 1st Squadron, 73rd Cavalry Regiment, 2nd Brigade Combat Team, 82nd Airborne Division, performs a functions check on the M4 Carbine during a train-up for the Expert Infantryman Badge on Se...

Spc. Christopher Zamudio, a Jacksonville, Fla., native from Company C, 1st Battalion, 325th Airborne Infantry Regiment, 82nd Airborne Division, practices giving himself a nerve agent antidote during a practice for the Expert Infantryman Badge on Sept...

Pfc. John Rumsey, a Tacoma, Wash., native from C Troop, 1st Squadron, 73rd Cavalry Regiment, 2nd Brigade Combat Team, 82nd Airborne Division performs a functions check on an M240B machine gun during the Expert Infantryman Badge train-up on September ...

Pfc. John Rumsey, a Tocoma, Wa., native from C Troop, 1st Squadron, 73rd Cavalry Regiment, 2nd Brigade Combat Team, 82nd Airborne Division, prepares a range card for the M240B machine gun during practice for the Expert Infantryman Bade September 29. ...

Pfc. James Durham, a Colorado native from Company D, 1st Battalion, 325th Airborne Infantry Regiment, receives a few pointers from his grader, Spc. Cody Poynter, a Los Angeles, La., native, during the Expert Infantryman Badge practice. Durham is lear...

Spc. Oliver Burnsed, a grader for the Expert Infantryman Badge, helps prepare a Paratrooper from 1st Battalion, 325th Airborne Infantry Regiment, 2nd Brigade Combat Team, 82nd Airborne Division, for the EIB test day. The paratrooper is locating a tar...

Two Paratroopers from 1st Battalion, 325th Airborne Infantry Regiment, 2nd Brigade Combat Team, 82nd Airborne Division practice adjusting a target for indirect fire during practice for the Expert Infantryman Badge on September 29.
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Spc. John Todoroff unrolls some firing wire for a claymore mine during a practice for the Expert Infantryman Badge on September 29. Setting up and retrieving a claymore mine is just one of the 32 test that Todoroff will have to perform come test day....

Sgt. Ty Lipe, a St. Louis, native uses a pine needle to aim a claymore mine during the train-up for the Expert Infantryman Badge on September 29. Lipe is from Company B, 1st Battalion, 325th Airborne Infantry Regiment, 2nd Brigade Combat Team, 82nd A...

Sgt. Ty Lipe, a St. Louis native from Company B, 1st Battalion, 325th Airborne Infantry Regiment, 2nd Brigade Combat Team, 82nd Airborne Division, wraps the firing wire for a claymore mine around a stake during the train up for the Expert Infantryman...