The Combat Action Badge, should it be retroactively awarded to those who have served in previous wars and conflicts?

I don't know, I want suprised about that too.

My "guess" is that they didn't record combat "events" the same way (for the Army). If you weren't a Medic or Infantry there was no need to record it, therefore "they" (the powers that be) wouldn't have bothered, as it was an administrative burden with no reward.

So that made us poor Gun Bunnies, that had to fight along with the Infantrymen, after all the VC/NVA did try to over RUN us several times, just fat out of luck. I guess gun bunnies awarded PURPLE HEARTS, ARCOMS W/V, BRONZE STARS W/V, SILVER STARS, DSCS and MOH were not in Combat, in Vietnam. I am not even mentioning all the Rocket,mortar and RPG Attacks. I can seea Vietnam Artillery saw far more combat than an Infantrymen or other Soldiers awarded CIB or CAB. But Vietnam Veterans are use to all the slights, we had to live through them for 50 years. All those 58,200 on the wall were not all Infantrymen.