Posted on Mar 17, 2021
Would I be considered a combat veteran just for being in the combat zones, without ever having to participate in combat?
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I served in desert shield/storm as an army cook for a tank battalion. I never had to participate in any combat myself but was in the combat zones. Would I be considered a combat veteran just for being in the combat zones?
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I was a signal officer in the 1st ID in the first Gulf War. I never fired a shot. I was always forward of the battalion, and often forward of the division. I watched a tank battle at night. I was shot at three times. Once by our own artillery, once by some ragged looking Iraqis, and once by some benighted soul in a heavy fog in Northern Kuwait. I was a combat vet. You woke up in the morning, not knowing if you were going to be shot at while you fed the troops. You ran the same risks as I. No question. You're a combat vet.
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SGT Frank-John Limiero
MSG Joseph Cristofaro Nothing blank about my service as a Silver Star and Purple Heart recipient.
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SGT Frank-John Limiero
MAJ Ron Peery
You have nothing to prove to me. My opinion of a combat vet is just different than yours. You figure out if you are really a combat vet or just someone who wants the glory. Real war fighters no the difference!
You have nothing to prove to me. My opinion of a combat vet is just different than yours. You figure out if you are really a combat vet or just someone who wants the glory. Real war fighters no the difference!
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SGT Frank-John Limiero
There was no front line when I served. Any tree, any person, any hooch could be your end. Warfare is warfare if you are an actual War Fighter not someone who is fortunate enough to hide behind a "base camp perimeter".
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SGT Frank-John Limiero
If you leave that area to Search and Destroy the enemy only then might you be a combat vet.
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MAJ Ron Peery
MSG Joseph Cristofaro - Most days, the greatest threat I faced was getting puked on by my gunner, who had problems with motion sickness. But the kid would not stay at the FOB. We eventually had to send him back to Kabul because he was in danger of serious dehydration. I'd rather have ten like him than one Frank-John.
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Simple answer. Yes. Anyone tells you otherwise, i.e. badge protectors, tell them to stick it where the sun don't shine.
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SFC R. Lee Linebarger
SGT Frank-John Limiero Got your combat vet bitch! 2 tours. So go fuck off POG!
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SGT Frank-John Limiero
SFC R. Lee Linebarger - Pieces of shit like you are part of the failure in the military. Your arrogance should never be an excuse for phonies that wish they were something their not.
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SFC R. Lee Linebarger
SGT Frank-John Limiero Jealous cause you didn't retire and I did. You are the failure. You and you alone thinking you have the sole exclusive idea of what a combat veteran is and your fucking arrogance alienates you from real patriotic serving men and women. I don't give a fuck about who you are or what you did. I have seen people die in combat, people get maimed and mutilated.
Shit bags like you are who give real veterans a bad name.
Oh and I love how I am living rent free in your pathetic excuse for a head rent free you fucking shit stain!
Shit bags like you are who give real veterans a bad name.
Oh and I love how I am living rent free in your pathetic excuse for a head rent free you fucking shit stain!
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SPC Christopher Perrien
SGT Frank-John Limiero - Chill man, Every knows there are differences between a War Vet, a War-Era Vet and a Combat Vet ,and claiming something different than the truth, is kinda "unofficial stolen valor"
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