From: Jim Breneman (jimbre_7@yahoo.com)
Date: Thu Jun 02 2005 - 09:41:42 PDT
I'm sorry I dont think I really got my point across in
my e-mail last night. I was pretty out of it.
I believe that EVERYONE in a combat zone deserves
recognition. It was always my understanding that that
is why the Army has anyone in an area where hostile
fire pay or imminent danger pay is authorized is
eligible to wear a combat patch on their right sleeve.
Indicating they have been in a combat zone.
I think some people might be mistaking the CAB with
the Close Combat Badge (CCB) which was proposed but
was never approved and replaced by the CAB. The CCB
was only award-able to combat arms and combat support
MOSs. It is my understanding that the CAB is eligible
to everyone who is in the theatre of operations.
The "door-kickers" arent the ones that I would have a
problem being awarded this badge. It's the finance
corps and food service soldiers who will, undoubtedly,
apply for this award that bothers me.
http://www.army.mil/symbols/combatbadges/index.html
Gives an explenation of all the combat badges awarded
by the US Army.
--- Ryan Gill <rmgill@mindspring.com> wrote:
> At 9:59 AM -0500 6/2/05, Scherrer, Tim wrote:
> >The people who are really getting beaten up are the
> transporters in
> >Iraq....they are fighting through ambushes and IEDs
> in Iraq as much as
> >the Infantry is. The combat arms go in with
> overwhelming force, but
> >they are less well armed than those in Armored
> vehicles.
> >
> >Our recent grad who died in a VBIED attack in April
> against his Stryker
> >was an Armored officer leading an infantry
> platoon....so his troops were
> >all eligible for CIBs, but he wasn't, so this picks
> up the slack.
>
> Don't confuse the CCB with the CAB. There were a
> whole bunch of Redlegs, Treadheads and Combat
> Engineer's kicking doors in Fallujah that deployed
> as motorized infantry even though they were some
> other MOS. I cannot see how they'd not qualify for
> the CIB frankly, (walks like a duck, talks like a
> duck...) But, my Buddy who was in the 4th ID as a
> Combat Engineer who got to fight half of his
> deployment as motorized infantry seems happy with
> the CCB as an alternative.
>
> Read his blog...he's quite outspoken. But if you
> know him, it gets to be funny. The guy is really
> bloody well read too.
> http://www.livejournal.com/users/sappersgt/
>
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