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

Some of us were pulled on back to back to back to back tours in Iraq and Afghanistan, lost our own family stability, and endured all the reward and punishments of being in a Combat Zone.
I’m not going to say that my Combat Patch is my right to passage, but I am going to say I am proud to display it.
I was in the 3rd Infantry Division from 1999-2008 and spent almost half of that time in Iraq.
If you are a new Soldier/Warrior and are hurt that you didn’t get a patch... send me your information and I will not only send you a patch, I will send you information on how to get assigned to my old division. Why feel left out when the Army kept sending the same troops over and over again... join us!

I didn't have a combat patch until Iraq, I waited like everyone before me

Who the hell are the 2% who voted yes??

This is ridiculous, almost as bad as when 2CR tried to force me to wear their combat patch instead of the 101st one I had already earned. You earn the patch, and you get to wear it (save for Marine patches- read the reg).
Uniformity for a formation or parade is also stupid when it comes to patches. The point of patches, badges, tabs is to differentiate Soldiers, not to make them the same. SSI-FWTS is to allow FNGs to find those that had "done their job" and ask the questions that AIT doesn't teach.

I was in the regular Army for 4 years (1986 to '90) and very few soldiers had combat patches. Those that did have them had served in Vietnam. I never felt that they shouldn't wear them because I couldn't wear one. I finally earned one after 17 years of service in 2003 during my deployment to Iraq. The new soldiers in my unit were kinda envious of our combat patches, but most of them have deployed since then. They have their own combat patches now. The odds are, if you stay in long enough and are in a deployable MOS, you'll get a combat patch.

This is absolutely ridiculous.

God knows I'd have loved one, though God also knows I'm not offended at others having them, certainly...obv that's just me, of course....

Snooze you lose. Should have joined earlier

Hmm they don’t have the “I was there ribbons” either or a CIB Maybe the generals should remove their stars so the LT’s feelings aren’t hurt. When I was in 66-69 men with decorations from WWII Korea and Vietnam were respected and looked up to. How the hell do they get through BCT? My poor Army

I wore my CIB with pride.I if I was orders to take it off because some Cherry or REMF felt bad I would have told them get your ass in the field and start humping where the fire is. WTF combat is not T ball. This us a stupid joke, not funny.