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HereSince1628 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Sep-01-07 05:59 PM Original message |
If you're in the AIr Force, would you wear a Combat Infantry Badge |
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Rick Myers (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Sep-01-07 06:01 PM Response to Original message |
1. Sounds very strange. My experience is years old, |
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Aviation Pro (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Sep-01-07 06:06 PM Response to Original message |
2. He may have been an infantryman and then did a service switch... |
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Prisoner_Number_Six (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Sep-01-07 06:06 PM Response to Original message |
3. They're starting to put Airmen on the front lines now |
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HereSince1628 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Sep-01-07 06:09 PM Response to Reply #3 |
5. Being in combat, or a combat zone generally isn't enough |
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Toots (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Sep-01-07 06:13 PM Response to Reply #3 |
6. Not sure he could qualify as an air force personel |
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Twillig (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Sep-01-07 06:08 PM Response to Original message |
4. I've read of a guy who was a submariner. |
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jody (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Sep-01-07 06:18 PM Response to Original message |
7. Yes if I earned it. I've several AF friends who earned their Combat Infantry Badge during Army tours |
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tabasco (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Sep-01-07 10:03 PM Response to Reply #7 |
10. You have to be in the Army infantry or special forces to get a CIB. |
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jody (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Sep-02-07 06:08 AM Response to Reply #10 |
16. I was not clear, I meant when they were in the Army. n/t |
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TexasProgresive (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Sep-01-07 09:08 PM Response to Original message |
8. You are required to wear every service award ever given |
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jmowreader (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Sep-01-07 10:12 PM Response to Reply #8 |
11. No, you're AUTHORIZED to do so |
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TexasProgresive (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Sep-02-07 06:29 AM Response to Reply #11 |
17. Unless things have changed since I was in the service |
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jmowreader (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Sep-02-07 12:32 PM Response to Reply #17 |
20. Technically you CAN be punished... |
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Cruzan (806 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Sep-02-07 06:30 AM Response to Reply #11 |
18. Army bling |
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sailor65 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Sep-01-07 09:41 PM Response to Original message |
9. Likely a cross-service ribbon |
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jmowreader (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Sep-01-07 10:29 PM Response to Reply #9 |
12. The CIB isn't a ribbon |
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sailor65 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Sep-01-07 10:35 PM Response to Reply #12 |
13. I thought the CIB had an accompanying ribbon |
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tabasco (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Sep-01-07 10:43 PM Response to Reply #12 |
14. I've never seen anybody wear the CIB and EIB together. |
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jmowreader (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Sep-01-07 11:10 PM Response to Reply #14 |
15. Turns out you're right, sorry for my error |
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conscious evolution (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Sep-02-07 07:41 AM Response to Original message |
19. I can see why they are getting them |
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jmowreader (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Sep-02-07 12:39 PM Response to Reply #19 |
21. They cannot get the Combat Infantryman Badge unless they're Infantrymen |
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