Posted on Dec 17, 2021
Has anyone heard of someone receiving a SSI-FWTS or “combat patch” for the Mexico border operations in the past couple years?
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Has anyone heard of someone receiving a SSI-FWTS or “combat patch” for the Mexico border operations in the past couple years?
Mexico
Border Patrol Agent
Combat Patch (SSI-FWTS)
Posted 4 y ago
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No. As of today, the United States (or the border area or Mexico) is not listed as:
a Combat Zone Tax Exclusion by the IRS
a country eligible for HFP/IDP in DoDFMR Vol 7a fig 10-1 or the current table on DFAS
https://www.dfas.mil/militarymembers/payentitlements/Pay-Tables/IDP-Areas/
these are the two requirements for the Army to approve an SSI-MOHC.
I think all of us here would enjoy hearing the story of the kid who is claiming they got an SSI-MOHC for the border mission, though.
a Combat Zone Tax Exclusion by the IRS
a country eligible for HFP/IDP in DoDFMR Vol 7a fig 10-1 or the current table on DFAS
https://www.dfas.mil/militarymembers/payentitlements/Pay-Tables/IDP-Areas/
these are the two requirements for the Army to approve an SSI-MOHC.
I think all of us here would enjoy hearing the story of the kid who is claiming they got an SSI-MOHC for the border mission, though.
Defense Finance and Accounting Service > MilitaryMembers > payentitlements > Pay Tables...
The official website of the Defense Finance Accounting Service (DFAS)
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This is not a thing. I have seen people make all types of claims about getting patches. If someone is claiming this, I would pull their ERB and scrub it to make sure they are wearing anything else that is fake.
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Yeah within his SRB under overseas/combat deployment he has a “6 month tour” to the US. First time I have seen this lol
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WO1 (Join to see)
Reclass SM into aviation (former artillery man) shows up while we were in Iraq the past few months. I ask him about his 10th mountain patch and where he deployed to and he stated it was for the Mexico border mission. To which I told him to remove it.
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You do realize that was prior to our entry to WWI. Patton Sr, was a LT. That long ago. AFAIK, that last time US Army was officially in Old Mexico. Cross border raids by the Apache continued until 1921 but were handled by the Frontier Bn TX Rangers.
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Never heard of it in the 100 plus years since we were chasing Poncho Villa cross border. Not even sure there were combat patches back then
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WO1 (Join to see)
Not a rumor or story, just a reclass SM showed up and I asked who he deployed with in 10th mountain and he said he did a border mission as artillery and they earned combat patches to include armed forces service medals
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MSG (Join to see)
WO1 (Join to see) - The AFRM I could see....but a combat patch? Yea, that don't pass the sniffer test.
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LOL... no.
Don't get me wrong, Texas and Arizona are shitholes, but I don't think we've gone so far as to call them combat zones.
Don't get me wrong, Texas and Arizona are shitholes, but I don't think we've gone so far as to call them combat zones.
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No, not in this century. Though people get it in Jordan and Saudi so why not.
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