Wrong. There is a Combat Action Badge. It's only a few years old.

When I discharged from the Army in 1977, there were only two comabt action badges: Combat Infantryman Badge (which I hold, Viet Nam 1970) and the Combat Medical Badge.

I'm sure that has changed to give all the REMF's a badge or two.

To WAMtnhunter:

REMF's???!!! Wow. You must have been a jungle bunny. No love for all the UH-1 Pilots who got shot down that would've quailfied for the current CAB, but not the old CIB. Hate to tell you this but the CIB/CMB are only available to MOS's that quailfy i.e. 11b (infantry). CAB is for all those convoy drivers, MPs, and others who get shot up in a front line free battlefield. Learn what the battlespace is like in modern combat and you'll see more of these awards are required, if given when deserved. Many requests for CABs are turned down. MPs conduct foot patrols, even female MPs for searching suspected female enemies are on the "front Lines." So if you don't like the people in the Rear, keep it to yourself, you only make yourself look badly. try to google Combat Action Badge and read the Wikipedia link.

Dennis

You are correct. The battlespace is light years ahead of where it was in 1945-1970. Back then, the Infantry comprised the vast majority of battlefield casualties. I am not implying that others did not make the ultimate sacrifice. Nor that current combatants don't deserve due recognition.

For years the CIB was retained as the only combat arms "badge" to distinguish those at the tip of the spear. Combat medics sustained way more than their fair share of casualties, too. Also, take note of how many Navy ships are named after Hospital Corpsmen deployed with the Marines.

My personal opinion, which I will post anytime I please Sir, is that ALL the services have been badge and medal happy for the past 20+ years. Those chests full of colorful decorations diminish the distinction of combat awards. But I'm sure with the war in Iraq, there is enough combat opportunity to go around.

I apologize if I offended anyone with my comment about "REMF's". But I see at least one person knows what it means!

One old 11F/11B4P, not a hero.

Only people are stupid enough to write “rules” of animal behavior. You don’t have to go far to find that animals, particularly wild ones, don’t give a rip about the rules no matter how much people think they’re tuned into to their nature or how many years they’ve work around them. Of course you can’t debate this with Tim Treadwell but Siegfried and Roy are still around if you must.

Small world. I was a Huey pilot that took basic at Ft. Polk (a.k.a boil on the buttocks of the world).

Iffn you dont want to get et by a bahr.........dont tred in the bahrs kitchen...and especially DO NOT bring pepper sauce....seems bears enjoy pepper spiced human.

;^)

There were a bunch of Warrant Officer Candidates in my basic company. I kept up with a few of them after boot camp. All those I personally knew made it through, to the best of my recollection. I have never been so glad to hear a noise than that wop-wop-wop of a slick inbound! Particularly if you were getting on it to rtb.

Dave Petzal
How in the heck did you find something in the Jeff Cooper Blog? I went to his website. There would be at least 6 months of reading there if you didn't stop! I wish I would've read some of his stuff back when he was writing it.
YooperJack

you guys are right on.. But no CIB for us Engineers, even when we go ahead of a mechanized group and breach a perimiter or open a tank trap. Us Commo people 31U -31g tagging along ...No .CIB. WE do get a little color on our chest from time to time. BLow afew bridges, build a few Air strips for the C-130 or clear a beach head.. Really guys It take A wide variety of MOS's to complete the mission. Know a lot of special forces troop who done the same thing under fire with no support from anyone. I salute you all, comrades in arms..

Doesn't surprise me. Many in the media don't know a shotgun from a cannon.While I was the manager of the FAA control tower in Missoula Montana,we'd had one airplane taxi into the tail of another aircraft at night on a taxiway on their way to the runway. As I passed the female reporter calling in her story from a payphone (1986) she was reading her story to her editor and stated that the aircraft had collided on the runway. After she hung up, as a way to educate her and correct her story, I said, "Miss, the airplanes collided on the taxiway not the runway." Her response? "Runway taxiway, what's the difference." With such unconcerned stupidity on the part of some reporters, it's best to read or watch their stories with a bit of skepticism!

In 2005 I was hunting moose in the Susitna River country and during a solid three day downpour I read a book about Treadwell and his misadventures. I cannot remember the author's name. The last chapter or appendix was devoted to a discussion which detailed the difference between grizzly and black bear behavior relative to attacks on humans. If I remember correctly, a lot of the data and info was researched by Alaska Game & Fish researchers. The conclusion was that griz attacks are more likely territorial or defense of cubs and black bears are intending to consume humans for lunch. It also noted that black bears probably do stalk humans and that an all out black bear attack has greater potential for a fatal end.

Kinda off the subject here folks, but I got a question.
Recently I received a questionaire type thingy from the NRA. It's labeled "2007 National Gun Owner's Action Survey".
What I'm asking is: Has anyone else out there received one and what was your response?

Bubba

Animals are not humans, nor can they be quantified or psychologically dissected. The basic rule to apply to bears and mountain lions (especially cats)is the fact they are predators. Just about everything is part of the food chain to them. Wild animals are just that; wild, and as such are unpredictable.