If a POG, awarded with a CAB (combat action badge), were to transfer to Infantry, would the soldier be authorized to wear the CIB?

Yes.

No. Two separate awards with different criteria.

I have a CAB. I got it as a Supply Sergeant on a MiTT Team in Iraq. If I had been later transferred to an Infantry unit - however unlikely that would have ever happened - to get a CIB I would have to engage the enemy as an Infantry Soldier. Quite frankly, I’m happy to have just returned home alive.

The idea of a CIB being awarded to a POG is repulsive. I was working as a forward Observer in Vietnam and awarded the CIB twice. Both were cancelled because I had an Artillery MOS. No harm done, I have forgotten all about it

No.

Please reread the names of the badges.

NO. They are two different badges and have different criteria for their being awarded. Another example would be the Infantry cord. Unless you are in an infantry unit with an 11 series MOS fiekld you cannot wear the infantry cord,

Ya gets to weatr what they give ua

Uh, that would be a big fat NO!!!

PFC, Do you have too much free time? I think that you could answer this question all by your lonesome. Come on the answere is simple it starts with an N and ends with a O.. I am not speaking about Mount Nyiragongo. Have a great day Kid.