Is someone authorized a deployment patch for being placed in Camp Buerhing during Operation Spartan Shield?

Ask him if the unit he was attached to cut him orders for the wear of their unit patch. We don't just throw patches on. There's paperwork that goes with them.

SGT (Join to see) SGT no he is not authorized a Combat Patch since Kuwait is not a combat zone. Had he gone to Iraq, Afghanistan, Jordan..ect then he would. But otherwise no. My Unit was there in 2016 and they all rotated too Iraq too get a combat patch.

Kuwait is a combat zone right now. My son is over there and he is in a combat zone getting combat pay and will be able to wear a combat patch. By the Army is is designed a combat zone. The IRS lists it as a combat zone and they can't without authority from the Secretary of the Army. My son even gets a deferment from his taxes for being in a combat zone. There are the facts as they stand right now today. Anyone that tells you It is not a combat zone is very very wrong.

No. I am in AJ now. This is a combat zone for IRS tax purposes only. This is not considered imminent danger or hostile fire zone.

There is no such thing as a deployment patch. A soldier is deployed when they are assighned anyplace outside the states. Some deployments are accompanied some are not ,some to combat zones some are not. The patch worn on the right sleeve is for being assighned to a unit in a declared hostile fire zone at specified time nd locations. I was assighned outside the states for over 40 consecutive months. I spent 32 months in RVN A combat zone)and the rest accompanied in Germany. I was station there when Reforger 1 was conducted. For RVN tours I received several combat patches for different units assignments. I had different ones sewn (no velcro then) on different uniforms. So read carefully DEPLOYMENT MEANS STATIONED OUTSIDE THE COUNTRY, WHILE DEPLOYED YOU MIGHT BE IN A HOSTIE FIRE AREA AND GET A UNIT PATCH FOR YOUR RIGHT SLEEVE. You get deployed you are stationed outside the states if the area assighned to is also designated hostile fire zone you het a patch for right soldier. So during Iraqi and Afghanistan being hostile fire zones. It was possible to be deployed other places, Germany,Japan etc for a total of 10 years and not get a combat patch.

Ffolks read carefully. tHERE IS NO SUCH THING AS A DEPLOYMENT PATCH.yOU ARE DEPLOYED ANYTIME YOU ARE ASSIGHNED OUTSIDE THE UNITED STATES.The unit patch some of us wear/wore is for being in a unit in a hostile(combat)area as designated by the powers that be. Being assighned to an embasy staff is a deployment,South America, Africa, Europe etc are all deployments. Some come with dependants some dont I spent about 41 months total in one stretch deployed. To RVN and to Germany. Time in RVN combat time and pay and I have the patches for that. Time in Germany with dependant just a nice tour no comat all 40 plus months DEPLOYED.