Do combat arms soldiers look down on fellow combat arms brethren if they have deployed and not been awarded a combat badge/medal/ribbon?

Never follow a Lt.

I've known many Marines who have requested to wear there combat Division patch while in the army and was approved. Try putting a 4187.

I "deployed" to a rear area. I was "combat arms" (Air Defense Artillery should NEVER see actual combat, our fighting should be done several miles away, and in the air). Hell, I look down on anybody who thinks that without a certain decoration you are less than anyone else

If you served that's all that matters to me. I'm impressed by combat arms guys, but I've known some badasses in logistics/supply too, just for different reasons.

I just try to remember there are morons everywhere, and there are inspiring individuals as well, a pretty piece of metal doesn't make you one or the other.

Like most people in the military, there are those that have seen action and those who haven’t. I’ve been around soldiers that have nothing on their chest but I would take into combat in a heartbeat and those that look like they’re leaning to one side because of all the crap on their chest that I wouldn’t want them in a squirt gun battle with local neighborhood kids. I’m not saying that those with CIB‘s or CAB’s aren’t combat effective, I’m just saying that it takes more than what’s on your chest to show me what kind of soldier you really are

As long as these wars of been going on if you been in the army Military for more than four years and haven’t employed you’re hiding

If your in it to collect medals perhaps your in it for he wrong reasons. After all people collect all sorts of things. Don't get me wrong I'm proud of the medals I received in Vietnam but we also had people like John Kerry getting three Purple Heart just to get sent home! I see young soldiers to day with as many ribbons on their uniforms as a man on our ship who had been blown out of two rive boats in the brown water Navy in Vietnam. Seems to me if you tie your shoes correctly there's a ribbon waiting for you.

If you weren't strafed today, thank the ADA!

This badge, that ribbon, this is just sad. Pathetic is more like it. They should stop medals, ribbons and badges until everyone gets over themselves