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Thread: Combat Action Ribbon
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08-07-10, 02:33 AM #46
One simple and easy way to see if you have rated the CAR.. https://www.manpower.usmc.mil/pls/ap...H_PI_VALUE:YES go to that link and enter your info.. If you are not on there and feel that you should be.. Then contact your command from G/2/5 and someone from the G1 check.. If not you may need to contact HQMC. But I think that your CO from the Unit you participated in a COmbat zone with must send the request up..
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08-07-10, 07:46 PM #47
That site is also supposed to work for the Humanitarian Service Medal....but it's not 100 percent. SRB says I have one, DD-214 says the same thing....but I'm not there LOL.
Guess I'm a poser huh
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08-07-10, 08:32 PM #48
Well Lep if you are a poser then I guess I'm an obese polecat
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08-07-10, 08:59 PM #49
Sorry Lep,
The PSR got me to that link post Iraq. I used it and my info appeared. After I got out, I attached to a reserve MP Unit and went to Iraq. When I got back and EAS'd again. I didnt recieve a final 214.. My last 214 from "active duty" didnt have any of my awards on it.. Oddly, the reserve unit wanted to push paperwork through for awards, deployment dates, etc post deployment. Nasty Reserve Officers...
So When I went to check into my Current unit, I didn't know until the PSR checked 3270, a database for admin with your SRB info in it..
Long of the short, I thought that this link was solid.. Sorry guys
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08-07-10, 09:01 PM #50
No, no! I'm sure it works fine for you younger guys....but some of us older, 'well used' folks, it may not.
I'd consider it a reliable source to check for anyone post 2002 or so for sure. Thanks for posting it up.
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08-09-10, 06:04 PM #51
I think you rate it if your post got lit up with rpgs and saf but...you're telling me none of your posts shot any rounds back..... sh!t.
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08-13-10, 09:39 AM #52
One of the Female Engineers got one while we took fire for 5 seconds and shooting in the wrong direction i think you rate one.
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08-19-10, 07:22 PM #53
Well, it's the same thing with a purple heart. Someone who gets killed and someone who gets grazed get the same award for sh!t that's not even close the same.
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08-19-10, 07:45 PM #54
You don't rate a CAR. You were never in combat. You got your OIF campaign medal, be proud of that. But you were never in combat.
Kandahar Airfield gets pelted with mortars and RPG attacks everyday. You think the thousands of pogues and fobbits actually rate a CAR? **** no.
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08-19-10, 07:57 PM #55
And let me just add, giving the CAR to a guy who never even fired his weapon in anger accomplishes nothing but cheapening the merit of the ribbon for those of us who were in sustained kinetic combat operations for 9+ months. If you wanted it that badly and it was a pride issue, you should have reenlisted and went to Afghanistan where you most likely would have gotten it. Otherwise, don't complain. I was only awarded a NAM with a V but a LT who did the exact same thing I did with an almost identical citation was awarded a bronze star with a V. Why? Because I was a CPL and he was an LT. Is it fair? No. But who cares b/c I know what I did, and I brought my Marines home alive and that is the ONLY thing that matters. When it comes down to pride and someone asks me what i'm proud of, its bringing the Marines in my squad home alive to their families and seeing their families waiting for them with their families when we got off the bus. The CAR or NAM w/V on my chest is an afterthought and just more crap I have to worry about when the ball rolls around.
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08-19-10, 08:46 PM #56
I was at Kandahar Airfield for two days on my way back. That b*tch has a TGI Fridays and a KFC...what...the...****. I don't think anyone there for a deployment knows what a condition 1 weapon is let alone combat. IEDs and IDF suck but its no where near rounds cracking over your head or hiting the wall in front of you. No comment on medals...at least the people who know what happend know the truth...
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08-19-10, 08:57 PM #57
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08-19-10, 09:14 PM #58
I was there about two weeks ago...
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08-19-10, 09:22 PM #59
Petraeus must have let them re-open. A lot of AF and Army people were crying when they closed (my oldest daughter was at Bagram when the closures went down).
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09-21-10, 05:52 PM #60
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