Metalgate Part duex

[Zebo]

We all know the Lynch fiasco but heres another.

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Recently in Iraq, an Army two-star general put himself in for the Silver Star, a gallantry award, for just being there, and for the Combat Infantryman Badge, an award designed for infantry grunts far below the rank of this division commander.

Here?s another ?Believe It or Not?: When the Scuds were thumping down on Kuwait, a Navy two-star admiral and six of his flunkies were awarded the Bronze Star after a missile struck 10 miles away.

 

[burnedout]

Colonel Hackworth is correct.

AR 600-8-2, 25 February 1995 (formerly AR 672-5-1)

Paragraph 8-6 Combat Infantryman Badge

c. Specific eligibility requirements.

(1) A soldier must be an Army infantry or special forces officer (SSI 11 or 18) in the grade of colonel or below, or an Army enlisted soldier or warrant officer with an infantry or special forces MOS, who subsequent to 6 December 1941 has satisfactorily performed duty while assigned or attached as a member of an infantry, ranger or special forces unit of brigade, regimental, or smaller size during any period such unit was engaged in active ground combat.