Fired 4 shots for mine.
Did you know some holders never even fired their wpn and still got one.

Do you have one

Yes

No


Thoughts


Thank you swell folks.

All these acros are confusing to us civies dude.

No.
For those questioning - Combat Infantryman's Badge.

I have the EIC badge, no combat for me though. My job was making sure your armament equipment was fully serviceable when needed…I was very good at that too.

Combat Infantry Badge (CIB)
Weapon (Wpn)

Glad I saw your post.

No

I will admit to running outside and staring into the sun when a C-130 flies over and then coming back into the trailer and hi-fiving the first person available.

Sometimes I’ll even make a thread when a helicopeter flies over.

Absolutely, at one time almost all of us had them. Not a lot still in with them.

I thought the requirements were:
Combat MOS
90 days in a combat zone (not sure how that reads)
Combat MOS and come under enemy fire.

One should try their best to ALWAYS have superior firepower in the form of mortars, gunships, artillery, A-10's.

One SHOULD ALWAYS REMEMBER THAT ALL MOS' are important no matter their function!

Yes

11F 40 WAY BACK when.

11 series and exchange of steel in anger. Though at times there have been some very lenient report vetting.

Ah, breaker one-nine, this here's the Rubber Duck... you got a copy on me Pig Pen, c'mon?... Oh... Wait?... Nevermind!...

Any MOS can get a Combat Action Badge (CAB) and the medics can earn a Combat Medic Badge (CMB).

Navy Achievement Medal with Combat V.

Uh,,,,,,,, Army does not have a combat action ribbon. That’s a marine corp thing. The Army does have the combat action badge (CAB) which soldiers outside of 11 and 18 series get.

Yes. Iraq 2004.
Bob

One could argue the EIB is harder to get and more meaninful due to the labor and skill involved.

I




Do not.

No

No, wrong MOS.

I thought about buying an F-150 just to put my Arrow of Light sticker on the back window.

The line they couldn't cross
The horse they couldn't ride

Thanks……had no clue! memtb

79 you are correct, have too many Marine friends talking about their CAR experiences.

Lots of 19s and 13s running around CABs.

Had the option of converting to 11M in 41st In mech in 2AD or being assigned as a 11C ( ojt basically)to one of 1st Cav,s TF troops and stay 11B when I got to Hood in 88.

Raised up my Hand in that briefing.
Where is that Cav Patch.
C Trp 2/7th


13 months as a 11C paid alot of dividends for me and my units down the line as a 11B.
Even though my time as a 11C was in the back of a 4.2 ( 4 deuce) 113.
Still gave me schit tons of mortar experience mission wise a 11B didn't normally have.


Ain't had a Whataburger since early summer 89 when I left hood/ Killeen.
We got 4 total opening here in Clarksvegas soon!

Can't even remember if they was decent or not.

You are absolutely correct in many aspects on that my 502nd brother from another mother.

CIB gets awarded to 11 series E and O alike for merely being in theater.

Not just line dogs in the fight.

That is what is fuuked up about the award in ways...
You and others know what I'm saying...

You have to fire your wpn to earn a EIB versus being awarded a CIB.
Same apology in ways per you guys EFMB and CMB.

Had to Google it for some details.

Might be a dumb question, but how much training has an average pfc received on all the weapons he is required to function?

Being a loony and mechanically inclined, it might come easy.

I'm thinking of some kid who was raised in an apartment, never turned a wrench, never held a gun. That is a long list of systems to learn if one has no applicable skills from his past.

Dan, love the Zippo. I'm sure if it could talk........

Many thanks to all who served!!!



Clyde

I carried a few guys with CIBs.

EIB wise.

They have train up for EIB on all stations for 2 to 3 weeks prior .
All ranks E and O alike.
Dudes with CIB,s going for their EIB also.
Some guys have been in units that didn't have the event due to other obligations _training or war.
Left units getting ready to do it to PCS some place else.
Some guys might have been in 4 5 6 7 years and it is their 1st chance at testing for it.


Have had 0-5,s believe it or not go thru my stations over the years testing for the EIB
Common skill level 10 task across the board.
30 total stations with Pt test 80 or90% in each event IIRC
( easy)270 out of 300 sticks in my mind. and wpn Qual expert 36 out of 40 to be able to go into test week.
Some people can honestly never shoot expert.
And the amount of time and ammo spent getting dudes Qual exp for EIB IIRC up to 30 days before test week was ridiculous at times.
It why they have marksman and sharpshooter badges
Some just never will shoot expert.
But higher keeps thinking some fuuking miracle will happen.
They ain't our on a Range for weeks on end running it or wanting to bang their head on a range tower beam..
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Schitbirds will deliberately fail pt or wpn qual to not even go to test week.
But they will mandatory go to train up no matter what.
You here all the gripes and complaints starting then alot more.
Privates up to senior NCO,s
The NCO,s should be ashamed not having one already and testing year after year after year.
Piss poor infectious attitude they spread.
Schitbirds are schit birds not matter the rank.

Just get the fuuuking thing and get it over with and then ya ain't gotta do it anymore.
Be on the committee and run a station forever after and chill the fugg out on it between test cycle ,but uphold the standards per the badge.
Do your job...
Ain't fuuuking hard....


12 mile road March 3hrs is final event with wpn assembly, disassembly, function check last event.
You fugg up wpn stuff.
Repeat rd March and wpn stuff next day.

Land nav day and night dead
Azmuths and distant only.( have your pace counts down)
Day given 8 digit grids and you plot your schit per map and protractor before start which is part of your course time also.
Neither map or protractor allowed on course during


Compass only.
Night you are given your azmuths and distances from a start point and compass only.
Better know your night pace good and how to offset obstacles enroute per pace and 3 cardinal directions per compass and get back on original azmuth track and continue.

You better get the road March done with time to spare and not cross that line.
Unfugg yourself , practice the wpn before you cross that line cause you go right into the wpn task instantly when you cross it.


Grenades get alot of guys.
Wet ground
Hard ground
How the grenade bounces or don't
How it rolls.
Accurate throw into a trench.
Distance throw into 5m ring.

Grenades are a tweeking event.


Be a 1 task master and focus on one at hand.
Get that mofo done.
Go to holding area of next unfugg your mind and focus on thar one.

Repeat till you fugg up and get a double no go on one task and bye bye.
Many do that on purpose.

Or your a blade runner with 2 1st time no go,s on seperate task
and earn it
# 3 = bye
1 1st time task no go and get it
Or true blue perfect thru out and get it.
All types of categories of tweekers out their trying to earn a EIB
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I enjoy talking about stuff like this to you guys on here.
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Guys I knew and I know too.
Some made it, some didn't.
It's a small community per the Deuce.

Thanks brother.
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Love good 68W’s, but those medic PLs are always retards.

One of my medics was a constantly sowing up local Afghans, that would hit each other in the head with shovels. 😬

Thanks rene.
Even though I goofed up the threads.



One thing.
Don't forget that some of us retarded Pennsylvanians don't know the lingo and especially the acronyms.

Sometimes you speak in code!

Rogue we might have been on the same FOB. Spent a little time with the FST at Tarin Kowt (TK as they called it) and saw the same local Afghan farmer brought in 2 days in a row. Result of a dispute over water. 1st day shovel strike to the head. 2nd day through and through GSW to the leg. He didn't learn I guess.

Yes

I made a thread specifically for star types.
Didn't get any post on it.
Buried in the back pages now.


Glad to see I am not the only one now.
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https://www.24hourcampfire.com/ubbt...-you-have-a-cib-with-a-star#Post18795643

Nope, peace broke out just as I finished Officers Basic. We were told we were the last class to be levied for Vietnam, but they caught all of the guys who on their way to Vietnam and brought them back stateside. That was 1974, always felt sorry for the guys who ended up having to stay to the bitter end.

I got a good conduct medal. Does that count.

Our old bde csm back in 08 had 2 stars on his. Gulf war 1 and Panama if I remember right.

Pard yes it does

I tip my hat to everybody who got shot at/shot/blown up, especially those who didn't get recognized.

nope was a 67S

GCM didn't stand for "Good Conduct Medal" it stood for "didn't Get Caught Medal

That top ribbon's even more impressive.

That's the story you want to hear over a couple of beers.

What's the alternative to a GCM?

Does the USARMY still use the blue infantry rope on the Class A uniform?

Not Army here but is that a distinguished flying cross??

Wow...I've seen you mention the Purple Heart before but I had no clue you also were awarded that DFC.

DFC

There are not a ton of ribbons that make me go daaaamn, and that one is on the short list.

I have a cousin who was a medevac medic in Viet Nam. He got his DFC flying into hot LZ's in the back of Hueys to do his job. 25 missions and you got the DFC. I'm pretty sure those 25 missions were in his first 25 days. I can only guess how many times that happened in 6 months. In his first 6 months he was assigned to an infantry unit. He didn't get any credit for his Huey time for that job.

Well earned DD.

kwg

That was my reaction as well!!

Thank you Vets, sincerely.

Nope, I missed my war. Still haunts me.

Well, getting the DFC (2) and Bronze Stars (2), one each with V was nowhere near as exciting as the PH.

Korea, unaccompanied. lol

I was with 2ID back in 86-87 and that place was crazy. Thinking back on it that was not the place to send an 18 year old from the hills.

To answer Renegades question I picked up a CIB in Afghanistan during an 04-05 deployment.

No CIB, but I have seen the results of weapons being fired in combat….Joe

If thats the case he’s FOS … The only way he could wear 2 stars is IF he was in Korea…. and/or Vietnam,Grenada, Panama, 1st gulf war or Somalia…. AND THEN THE GWOT.

Thank you in particular and thanks to all that served and again in particular those at the sharp end.

I know a guy who wears a CIB pinned on his Vietnam Veteran hat who was stationed in Germany and Arkansaw. Never went to Vietnam and never saw a shot fired in anger. This dude wears an 82nd Airbourne patch, jump wings, Ranger tab, and scroll. He told me on two different occasions that he was 17 in 1974 and was sent to Germany where he served a couple of years and then came back to the States to finish his enlistment. He was in a mortar unit attached to the 82nd in Germany. Said, "We were the same as them." People tell him "Thank you for your service" all the time and he grunts and nods his head pretending to get teary-eyed. One guy at a local ballgame brought his son over to shake this pretender's hand and told the kid, "Now you can say you have shaken hands with a hero." When this cat wears his vet outfit, which is often, I want to punch him in the throat. He is in my son in laws family and I bite my tongue to keep the family peace but damn it is tough sometimes.

Stop biting your tongue and let everyone know the truth.

Yes I do.

I have no doubts.

My flak jacket kept me from a Purple Heart and that was fine…but it was for sure a more ‘exciting’ moment than when I first met the criteria for a CAR, which was more boring than anything else.