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 was in four combat zone from 1979 to 2000 and earn the rank of MSG /E-8 i will be telling any E-1 or E-2 if your feeling are hurt drop and give me 50 and as your down there think what is your malfunction with your thinking and when i do let you get up then tell me if your feeling are still hurt for i can tell you get drop and give me another 50
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The saddest part is this is one of the units that used to not care what anyone thought of what they did or how they conducted business. They thought they were the biggest baddest MFers and they would fight anyone that said differently. Oh how times change.
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You put in your time and earn it just like everyone else. Just another pointless situation to contribute to the new spoiled generation of soldiers.
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Seems like a great plan to me destroy the moral while undermining the sacrafices and hardships of the greater percentage of the unit by taking something they earned, so the minority gets to look as if they made the same sacrafice. Cause thats all it will change is appearance. All while creating a rift between members of the command they will never overcome.
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Is this what we have resorted to. Just because someone does not have a combat patch we should feel sensitive to their hurt feeling. Maybe we should look at the fact those that do have earned them and not be punished because that is exactly what you are doing to them.
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This is riduculous. We wanted to see what our leaders were made of when I came. I never got there to combat but I looked at those that had come before me and used their knowledge to make ME and when I became a leader, my soldiers, better trained for what they may face. This disgusts me.
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HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHa! Thanks for the laugh; I really needed it. I never received a combat patch while in service, but I certainly would not be upset by or condemn anyone who had. That's a badge of distinction, and people in the military should strive to earn one of their own.
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