Do I get combat pay and a combat patch for getting deployed to Saudi Arabia?

Any base located in Saudi Arabia is indeed Patch & Pay Authorized.

As of recently getting home from a deployment and recieving both from being in Saudi Arabia during my deployment you can and will recieve both.

SPC (Join to see) You get a patch & pay, I just recently came back from deployment with Saudi Arabia being my last point in my deployment. Received Combat Patch & IDP from being in SA.

MAJ (Join to see) Saudi Arabia, is one of the 4 countries Authorized Patches.

Jordan, Iraq, Syria, and Saudi Arabia recieve Combat Patches with IDP, Syria recieves $100-200 extra on top of IDP pay.

SGM (Join to see) Yes you do, its receievd a patch for a while now.

No they didn't get rid of anything. You can be deployed to a combat zone without actually being in combat. CIB and CAB are for those actually underfire by an enemy combatant. A combat patch is for being deployed to that combat zone. I was deployed all over the world. Doesn't mean I get a shoulder patch every time I deployed

SSG Brian Whitney ya you get to wear the unit that your deployed with patch.

SPC Roger Furtak those patches are only awarded when deployed in a combat zone. CIB have been around forever. CAB'S are new. You don't get a "deployment" patch. You get a combat patch. SMH. Just acknowledge the lesson that was taught and quit trying to prove something to a Veteran that knows.

SPC Roger Furtak if it is to a combat zone only. If you were to deploy to say Kosovo right now, you would not get a right shoulder sleeve insignia or combat patch. I literally have never heard of a deployment patch.