Posted on Dec 12, 2021
Do I get combat pay and a combat patch for getting deployed to Saudi Arabia?
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Ok, I went back and checked, to get a combat patch in Saudi is: From 14 Sep 2019, no end date. You have to receive combat-zone tax exclusion and hostile fire or imminent danger pay.
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Thats not how the patch is given...
Saudi Arabia is an area that recieves Combat Pay & Patch.
Just cause we aren't at war with them doesn't mean it's not designated a Combat Zone. Attacks happen quite abit in Saudi by Missles coming from Yemen.
Saudi Arabia is an area that recieves Combat Pay & Patch.
Just cause we aren't at war with them doesn't mean it's not designated a Combat Zone. Attacks happen quite abit in Saudi by Missles coming from Yemen.
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Saudi Arabia, as well as Syria, Iraq, and Jordan are the current countries that recieve Combat Pay & Patch.
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That's generally auto generated by your S-1 or, if a Joint Command, the S-1 that does personnel actions. Your entire unit, if deployed, would be eligible. Dates of service in that country would be an element of your eligibility. I was stationed in (then) West Germany for three years from 76-79 yet 30 years after the "occupation" ribbon was awarded.
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Unless people in the unit never leave a Country where they are not Authorized a patch and pay.
ie. Engineers stay in Kuwait, Said engineers never leave kuwait but ither portions of their unit leave kuwait and go to Saudi or Syria. Those that leave kuwait and go to (Iraq, Syria, Saudi Arabia, Jordan) will recieve a Patch & Combat Pay (IDP) the ones left receieve Nothing. Thank you for your service you stayed in Kuwait to help the cause
ie. Engineers stay in Kuwait, Said engineers never leave kuwait but ither portions of their unit leave kuwait and go to Saudi or Syria. Those that leave kuwait and go to (Iraq, Syria, Saudi Arabia, Jordan) will recieve a Patch & Combat Pay (IDP) the ones left receieve Nothing. Thank you for your service you stayed in Kuwait to help the cause
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SPC (Join to see) - Are you replying to the correct comment? I never stayed in Kuwait (Ali-al-Salem). I do have OEF though.
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You get to beat your face in the sand!
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I have to look at it this wayl, if you aren't authorized to wear a CIB, CAB, or a CMB do your really feel good about wearing a "combat patch"?
Now I suppose if you slip in the shower and sprain your ankle while in KSA you can be put in for a PH for being injured in a combat zone....................
Now I suppose if you slip in the shower and sprain your ankle while in KSA you can be put in for a PH for being injured in a combat zone....................
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Just slap on any ol patch of your choosing, I’d suggest the 101st or 82nd, when asked just make it up as you go, hand to hand combat in Riyadh with a camel is always a good story.
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