Something that continues to bother the team is seeing soldiers (let's call them E-6 and above) walking around without a combat patch. Each of us have deployed multiple times and can't figure for a minute how many of these folks for the last 10-15 years have avoided going to serve in the effort. We talk about it every day; trying hard to look past it so not to be bitter. The only thing we figure, folks like this have done an outstanding job avoiding the whole deployment effort.
Were just saying; if you've been in, near or part of the military in the last 10-15 years, you should have at least gone once. It's almost disgraceful to those that have gone before and prepare to go.
Just an observation, I thought I'd share. Later!
The Dark Days
2 years ago
My husband says they stand out like a sore thumb like waving a red flag at a bull it pisses him off too. He said "the only ones who should walk around without one are the privates that haven't been in long enough to deploy yet."
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Just a thought on the whole thing from an almost outsiders perspective. Perhaps they were like me and came up through another service branch that didn't get combat patches. If I would have joined last year I would have had 10 years in and been an E-5 and wouldn't be eligible to wear a patch even though I've been deployed in a combat zone before.
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