Posted on Mar 1, 2016
MSG Wally Carmichael
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"(Unit Name withheld) BCT ordered to remove combat patches during training at Fort NoMatter so the ones without them don't get ‪‎hurt feelings‬.

Reason? "The unit just returned from Afghanistan and almost everyone has a patch but the large influx of new soldiers are E1 and E2s that have never deployed and they are saying they are left out because they don't have a patch."
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SSgt Daniel Vallance
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SSgt Daniel Vallance
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SSgt Danny Liberty Vallance. Just a few of the patches I have on my 3 Field jackets, even though the Field Jackets seem to be getting tighter and tighter to wear. Please drop me a line at [login to see] .com. Most of all guys thanks for your service to USA. I would do it all again in a New York minute.
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SFC Instructor
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Some Soldiers are just too entitled, and we are catering to that. No I don’t think we should remove them, we earned them. Some day they will too. Never once as a private did I feel left out or get hurt feelings when I seen people with patches or badges, I looked up to them. I aspired to do the things they did. I knew that I had to earn my place and that’s just what I did.
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SGT Juan Robledo
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NO, if you earned it wear it, those who have iffy feelings can just wait their turn to earn theirs
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SSG Ken Steinhoff
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Only if you remove the rake so a Private don’t feel intimidated by a four-star general
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SGT William Brown
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Waaaaaàa, don't cry about it, if you stay in long enough you'll get one.
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MSG Mlc Facilitator
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SMH, next we are going to give out Bronze Stars to every soldier for pulling staff duty and not falling asleep. Stop crying. Put in work, then we can talk.
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LTC Jess Capel
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No, makes it easier to pick out the O4/E7 and above slackers who have 5 doctorates while snoozing through rear D duty.
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SPC Steven Nihipali
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ur kidding right? LMAO! This cannot be a true question. I, a national guard soldier, am proud to wear the dumb ass patch I got... I'm still waiting for the 3 AD unit patches, but fuck it... I'm good with what I got.
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1SG James Kelly
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Should we remove their faces to be sensitive to those who aren't as ugly or stupid.
Who in hell is that idiot CO and how did he get there?
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SSG Infantryman
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I say screw this snowflakes, earn your sh..stop winning. This is the legacy left by LIBTARDS!!
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SGT Juan Robledo
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If you wear it you earned it so wear, those troops who haven't had the opportunity to deploy to a combat zone will have their chance one day
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SFC William Ewing
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No it is part of the uniform so not wearing it makes you out of uniform.
Now properly used it will give new solid incentive to excell.

Back when prior to Desert Storm, I was one f two people in my unit wearing a combat patch the other was our SGM.
We were both Vietnam Veterans, he retired and the new one didn't have one but our new COL had one.

If someone had told us to remove the patch so as to not hurt feelings, we would have hurt their feelings.

Be proud and wear it, dare them to tell you to get out of uniform.
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Sgt Robert Gardner
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Should people without Purple Hearts get voluntarily shot so they can have one and not feel bad?
Yes, that’s how ridiculous the question is.
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CSM Joseph McEachron
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No!!! SSI-FWTS is a matter of pride for those who wear it. That patch is something that all Soldiers take pride in. The new Soldiers are part of that unit and are valuable team members. Just because the new Soldiers have not deployed to combat we make our combat veterans remove the combat patch they earned. Who ever came up with that crap needs to find another profession. Good way to lower the morale. However, always two sides to a story and I like to hear the reasoning behind this decision.
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1SG Brian Adams
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Hell no...give subordinates something to strive for...yes even in a theatre of operations...hooah!
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COL Health Services Plans, Ops, Intelligence, Security,Training
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Heck, why stop there? Let's remove everything but Name, Service and Rank. No need to give away our unit (combat or otherwise). Maybe change the uniform to pink pajama wear, that is fluffy and warm, has enough pockets to carry our iPhones, cigarettes and munchies.
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CPL Brian Prosser
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Let them sit in their cry corner, safe place or whatever the all of these assholes call them. They are supposed to be soldiers! I see your MOS is in the Med field, maybe it's different there. I dont know about nowadays, but back 25 years ago no body gave a shit about your feelings. You want feelings? Peace Corp. But that's just my opinion
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SPC James Gromley
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Combat patches are content the hard way, by serving in combat! They are not given to ever Tom, Dick and Harry just for showing up! I do not have any reason being my time was during peace time. Those with combat patches duck live ammo to get them and it is one of the way we show respect for their sacrifice! Any one sensitive to the fact they do not have any needs to switch to infantry and go out and get some of their own. They are not hard to get just risk your life no big thing right?
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LTC Matthew Maki
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Has about the same logic as telling soldiers not to wear uniforms so the ones without them don't get hurt feelings.
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PO1 Don Mac Intyre
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Crap like this used to make me laugh, then I realized these idiots are serious. Too bad no one can actually tell them to go the hell away.
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