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

No.

Does your erb change from awards issued? No, the soldier got a CAB and not a CIB. If you got a CIB and went to a different mos, you would still have a CIB because that’s what was awarded to you...

No.

Not until he earned it by Infantry Standards !

No absolutely not. The CIB would have to be earned by the soldier as an infantryman in combat. Furthermore if he earned the CIB then he would no longer wear the CAB.

Although the act of "stolen valor" is truly disgraceful, we all have to ask ourselves where we should draw the line. I know this goes back a few years but a month or so after I left the First Special Forces Group (Airborne) in Ft. Lewis, WA (circa the Fall of 1985) a case came to light of the group chaplain who appeared to be highly decorated and it was all a farce. When this hit the newspaper in Seattle, I can remember thinking how I felt that this reflected poorly on those of in SFG(A). Although, thankfully the situation of this individual is still much more the exception than the rule.

Negative they would wear the CAB. You only earn your CIB if you basically get into direct action with enemy forces as an 11 series or 18 series

Hey PFC, It is all fun and games with this POG shit until you need fire from an artillery battalion. Cut the infantry is god shit and rejoin the combined arms team

The use of POG in this day and age is just wrong to a point. Granted, in Vietnam there were people stationed in the rear who never faced combat, got all kinds of medals and then went home without putting their ass on the line. The line doggies hated the fact that some got to live large while they slept in the mud and ate C rats. There was always that jealousy between Combat Arms and the Support units going back to the Civil War.

You would only be permitted to wear the CAB because that is what you were awarded at the time of the service. You have to be an Infantry or Special Forces MOS to be awarded the CIB and it must be at the time of the service in combat. There is no retroactive award of a CIB. An Infantry soldier can't be awarded a CAB either for the same reason.