A New York Air National Guard master sergeant is among the first airmen to earn the Army’s newest combat recognition badge, the Army Master Combat Infantryman Badge.
Master Sgt. Scott Potter, a Ravena resident and veteran of the Iraq and Afghanistan wars, had earned two badges that led to this new honor while serving as an Army infantryman: a Combat Infantryman Badge and an Expert Infantryman Badge. Early this year, the Army authorized the Master variants to allow those who held both qualifying badges to wear a single badge representing the culmination of both achievements.
Potter served in the active Army and the New York and Vermont Army National Guards before joining the Air National Guard. He is currently a combat arms instructor for the 109th Airlift Wing at the Stratton Air National Guard Base in Scotia…