Posted: 10/3/2006 11:50:45 AM EDT
|
To add to the WA HTF Vets list, If you'd like, chime in where you got your combat patch(es) or National Defense service ribbon. I got mine in Korea 96-97 (KC-39er Remote Outpost), but saw nowhere NEAR the action that some of you guys are seeing in Iraq. So Let me add: Thank you |
)
|
I recieved the combat action ribbon in southern baghdad in early 2005, and then again in al anbar province for the majority of 2006. I was "combat meritoriously" promoted to Corporal durring my second deployment. and recieved the purple heart  for wounds recieved after I was hit by an IED. Broken hand, 2 ruptured eardrums, and a grade 3 concusion Yeah it wasnt much but its better than John Kerry
|
I have heard that it gets crazy up there did you shoot any koreans? |
I have the NDS ribbon, I got it on completion of Basic Training because it was during GWI. (pretty ghey, but It was not my deal.) The only I guess Im a waste of space, no real combat.  |
I participated in a lot of "Real World" missions, however never fired a shot in anger. Most of my work was Retrans communications. The N. Koreans fired mortars southward on a regular basis though. They always seemed to start shit at 2am on a Saturday, just after we had all gotten back from the club and were trying to get our beauty sleep. Then we'd get alerted out of our beds. Of all the times they pulled that (about twice a month). We only rolled to the gate and drew ammo once. |
|
Operations Promote Liberty(Panama) (UNMIH) Haiti OIF2(1stCAV combat patch 3rdBCT, South of Baghdad) Combat Infantrymans badge Expert Infantrymans badge Air Asslt Badge Bronze excellence in competition badge(RIFLE) Purple Heart Army Commendation Medal NDSM X2 Good conduct(Only one, I was bad a time or 3  )Some others that would require me to break out class As and look at. |
Same here. Got mine on 8 SEP 95 upon graduation at Recruit Training Command, Great Lakes. Funny thing was, I was in the eighth grade when I watched Desert Shield / Desert Storm on CNN. My second award came on 9/11/01. We all know why. My Armed Forces Expeditionary Medal was awarded while on a WESTPAC deployment in 1999 in support of Operation Southern Watch. There was only mild to moderate excitement going on in the Persian Gulf at the time. In fact, only one F/A-18 out of a flight of four dropped bombs on an Iraqi target while I was there. Being on a frigate while having Seersucker SSMs pointed at you is bad, mm-kay? The F/A-18s took care of that. |
No CIB? |
CAB, the cock and balls as we grunts like to call it. Many people have certainly earned it, my bud a 63T earned a CAB for killing a hadji PKM gunner. We may raze each other in the service, but the mutal respect is there.
|
When I was a Scout I wasn't awarded it because you have to be an 11 Series, I was a 19D (our mortar men got it, cause they were 11C). Now that I'm an MP, I still can't be awarded the CIB, still not an 11. Got the CAB for OIF 1/2, took until last June to finally catch up with me because it was authorized way after I'd PCS'd from Germany. |
