Posted on Mar 1, 2016
Should we remove combat patches to be sensitive to those who don't have them?
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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."
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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I never had one. I never once felt somebody else shouldn’t wear theirs because I didn’t have one. Suck it up and quit whining. Its the freaking army, not preschool!
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If someone is butt hurt over the fact that have earned or received something that someone else is a dumb reason to change policy and take away Honors from someone else
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Progressive idiots from today’s educational system want a trophy for not doing anything.
Just wearing the uniform for now should be an honor. Live with that. And remember. Some who got the patch.
Got it posthumously.
Just wearing the uniform for now should be an honor. Live with that. And remember. Some who got the patch.
Got it posthumously.
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That is as absurd as telling in shape soldiers to put on weight and get fat because they make out of shape ones feel bad. The PC BS is ruining everything it touches and it's turning people into whining petulant children.
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Hell no! I am one who does not have combat patches. I want to know the studs around me! LOL
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Albeit it happened about 4 years ago it did happen indeed and here's the story
https://www.armytimes.com/news/your-army/2015/06/18/bct-banishes-combat-patches-badges-to-boost-morale/
https://www.armytimes.com/news/your-army/2015/06/18/bct-banishes-combat-patches-badges-to-boost-morale/
BCT banishes combat patches, badges to boost morale
The head of Fort Carson's 1st Stryker Brigade Combat Team wants soldiers' uniforms bare of combat patches in the field.
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Who was the dumbass you did this. Fire their most likely slick sleeve arse! Some good NCO should have told the BS the twit can’t order them to do that! Fire the fool
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What is this friggin obsession with sensitivity, I thought this was a MILITARY forum..
If they don't rate a combat patch so be it, maybe someday they will.. Hell's bells I was in combat (PBR's 1968-69) and didn't get a patch, how the hell do we think I felt..
If they don't rate a combat patch so be it, maybe someday they will.. Hell's bells I was in combat (PBR's 1968-69) and didn't get a patch, how the hell do we think I felt..
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