Should we remove combat patches to be sensitive to those who don't have them?

How silly!

I think that would be childish and ridiculous. It never bothered me when I was an E-1 and E-2.

......... ok. well, if your feelings get that hurt over that, you'd never make it through combat to EARN ONE in the first place. SO basically you need to return your gear, and rewind back to whatever lolipop guild you came from, because I don't want to earn mine next to that kind of spinless millennial.

I see some of my RP comrades bent out of shape big time. But, heck no don't remove patches to preserve feelings. Being in the line of fire and coming home alive is a BIG DEAL and an earned honor. Those who don't have them need to be conversing with those who survived to get some much needed battle front Intel. The military continues to be watered down. This is not let me see yours and I will let you see mine. This is survival of the fittest. "I want to go home alive".

No, why because they came in the services later?

I think this RAF skit by Armstrong and Miller pretty much answers that question. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mGp4DvFEgh8

You gotta be kidding! This is just another example of "trophy children". I deal with this kind every day in the structural engineering firm I own. They want a medal if they show up to work.

The patches are EARNED. A service member should never have to take off anything that they have earned to make someone else feel better. When those individuals earn their own patches by being deployed. Then they can also wear them with pride. Members ate away from family and friends between 9-12 months , sometimes longer. This causes great hardships with family, marriages, financial and relationships with both spouses and children due to you not being there. If they are really feeling left out then they can always go to command a volunteer to go early. There are plenty of service members who would love to come home early. We give kids today rewards for everything and participation awards. They can receive this participation patch when they aren it. Live it, earn it then you will RESPECT it.

I know this is not the U.S. Army I served in (1968-1971) but to order soldiers that have deployed
and earned their combat patch to remove them so they don't hurt another soldier's feelings is nuts.
When did the Army become concerned with a new soldier's feelings ? A soldier earns the right to
wear those combat patches and should not have to remove them because some new PVT that has
never deployed arrives and he/she might feel left out or have hurt feelings. "LET THEM EARN IT".

I knew a guy who received some combat awards years after the combat for the simple reason no one knew we were there. He never cried because he did not get his awards, but then again he already had a combat patch and CIB. This was just some V devise stuff.