The Army has awarded the first Master Gunner Identification Badges to a handful of soldiers, nearly 400 years after the prestigious position of master gunner was created.. At a Nov. 25 ceremony at ...

In September, the borough’s Board of Warden and Burgesses voted to have the five ribbons that are affixed to trees on the Litchfield town green removed by Jan. 2. But at the board’s meeting ...

Steeped in history, military ribbons, ... In fact, according to the U.S. Army’s Institute of Heraldry, the first badges were used to identify troops under a specific general’s command.