What is that?
Average NCO sent us this picture and he’s already filed for a FOIA on the whole dude, but I was just wondering if anyone has ever seen that red badge that Studly here is wearing over his rack of ribbons (he claims that he was in Vietnam and Desert Storm). But, I think he’s just wearing it to be unique, I’ve never seen anything that was red and had crossed rifles on it, seen’s how crossed rifles only look good with blue.
Category: Who knows
Pardon my stupidousity, but wouldn’t a “combat artilleryman” be a mortarman?
Mortarmen (or is it officially mortarperson now?) do fling hostility at the enemy (when pos ROEs allow) through tubes like artymen…or persons, whatever. And, they are infantry, more or less. Seems the perfect mix for a combat artilleryindividual.
Or, maybe the Army needs yet another big of shiny. How about a Golden Arch badge for the indirect firepeople?
PS. Is person still legal to say? PerSON sounds awful anti gynologic.
Just a thought or two:
Folks who were genuine Air Cav may remember that during Vietnam, uniform rules concerning patches, hats/caps/berets, grooming and such were flagrantly abused. Today, units get tatts, customized jewelry and whatnot to symbolize their brother&sisterhood. Seems it was the same way back in our grandparents and parents’ ages (WWII and Vietnam). One need not be Airborne to go through combat with an airborne unit. If a former servicemember is wearing his brothers’ colors from an era that played fast and loose with the regs, WTF, over?
Second thought: what valor is being stolen here? If John F*ckin’ Kerry can write his own awards for the SS and PH, and get away with it, and the US Navy is put in the position of having to back him up, why can’t a former SSG put a Combat Artillery Badge on some old BDU?
Just a couple of thoughts. Wouldn’t want people trying to stomp me for wearing my PowerPoint tab, or my Excel chart ribbon rack.
“Fling hostility.”
I like it. Please consider it stolen.
@52 Here’s the Deal-ee-Oh DaveO. Jonn put the combat artillery badge up just because we weren’t sure what it was. We have other photos on this guy wearing a CIB over the same ribbon rack. And let’s talk about that ribbon rack. Hondo already pointed out who all the order of sequence was all jacked up. He’s wearing Oak Leaf Clusters on ribbons/medals that would use stars instead, and the upside-down KLM. We’re hiding his identity until the FOIA comes back, but what you don’t see is on the other side of the uniform he’s wearing unit awards. One of them is a Presidential Unit Citation, and another is an Air Force Meritorious Unit Award. He claims 82nd Airborne in Vietnam and Desert Storm; the 82nd didn’t earn a Pres Unit Citation in either conflict. And even he was somehow assigned to an Air Force unit, the AFMUA wasn’t created until 2004. When someone’s rack is that jacked up, my experience tells me they are either 1) An embellisher that spent some time in the military, but not enough to learn how to get their shit straight. or 2) they are 100% phony. Which leads me to believe he sure didn’t earn two Bronze Stars. So DaveO the last time I checked, I wasn’t a big John Kerry fan either–but I’m sure as hell not going to give this guy a free pass.
I’m in a Airborne Unit and we did in fact pull fresh leg cherries from Benning to deploy with us. After deployment we either sent them to Airborne School or sent them to leg land to suffer with the rest of their kind. It still happens even in garrison, mostly with medics and fo’s if we are too under strengthed.
@45.
You mean like the Sergeant Audie Murphy Club medal/medallion?
A very prestigious award.
But at what point does common sense kick in?
Like an old SFC Mason ring NCO that would not correct young Private salutes when they saw it? Like around the neck? Blue Ribbon? Big medal?
Young Privates; I get it. But they were trying.
This clown never corrected them.
We,new LT’s (some of un non-cherry), housed that up. Big fight.
“What, I did not do that!!”.
“SFC, I was prior service. What in the God’s name of FUCK are you doing!!!!!????”
Fuck that turd.
Shame and proving dishonesty is a motherfucker.
Shit works. Especially when it involves peer pressure.
Clown.
#26
“Combat artillery badge.
There was a push before the CAB to have branch specific combat badges.A buddy gave me one as a gift.”
That is exactly the way they should have gone.
If he was really lame, he’d invent a Combat ADA Badge and put that on instead. (14E here… )
@56. The only times I actually wore my SAMC medallion in uniform were during induction ceremonies and the Fort Sill SAMC Ball that I was forced to attend. And that’s IAW AR 670-1.