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

Check with your Top Sgt. and we hope/pray your award was entered!

No!

Is the force really this stupid? Glad to be retired.

Would non-Infantry personnel that fought in Vietnam appreciate getting the CAB? I wrote about it and it was rejected. It was retroactive for others but not for Vietnam Veterans (I think they were concerned about the cost). My Medic only received a Purple Heart after getting killed in action in the Ashau Valley during Operation Apache Snow, Hill 937 (Hamburger Hill), with 17 others medevacked out, not including those that were injured and stayed to fight. A sore spot with me, took stitches in the field, recently found shrapnel in an x-ray in my hand, rejected for belated PH.

ONLY IF HE OR SHE BECOME PART OF THAT UNIT COMBAT INF.

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Shoulda asked this question without doggin other brothers and sisters in Arms.... your that guy.

Yes. They could wear it and continue wearing it even if they were awarded the CIB. AR 600-8-22 does not disallow it nor does it require it to be removed from the record or disallow it’s wear even if they are later awarded the CIB.

Also, don’t become one the “look at me, I’m enlightened” turnips crying about the term POG. They suck at life. Be awesome and keep using the term. It’s not that serious. Finance is an important job….doesn’t mean they still aren’t POGS.

No. POGS can’t wear the CIB until they are engaged by the enemy and engage the enemy in return. An Infantry reclass with a CIB isn’t authorized to wear the CAB until they are engaged by the enemy in their POG MOS. The same as neither would be able to reclass to medic and slap in. CMB until they fulfill the requirements to earn that badge

Nope. Has to be earned while holding the M.O.S. I held the EIB and was awarded the CAB on last deployment as a 13F. Because I held the 11B MOS also, was asked if they wanted to put in for the CIB and I said no. That damn EIB was a lot harder to get than the CiB, lol.