For those of you stuck on ’stupid’ and stupid being a very minor segment of a post that wasn’t suppose to be about medals, lets get it straight.

For one, I don’t like to debate with people. It pisses me off. I put my views and words on this site because it’s my outlet. 95% of the time it is all about my experiences and very heavy on the soldier side. I made a point to say that I look at soldiers different when I see a combat patch and a CIB. So let’s clarify this point some more.

My words exactly: “I just have a different type of respect for soldiers who have a CIB and those who don’t.”

I never said I look down upon them nor did I say that beloved fucking CAB is worthless. I’m saying I look at people differently. Think of it like this. You a person with one leg and you walk into a room and you see 4 people across from it talking and they all have one leg. I bet your ass you will go up to them either immediately or at some point to talk to them, because you can relate to them. Let’s sweeten the pot a little bit more. You are in the military and you show up to a function for your child and you are in uniform. You see 4 guys across the room in uniform talking; I bet you the same aforementioned action will be taken.

Point is this. I have respect for all soldiers who have the balls enough to go to combat. Heck I will even go as far as saying I have respect for most anyone in uniform. There are some turd bags that ‘only’ soldiers would love to take to the wood line and fix but we can’t in today’s Army. So we mentor, train and improve that soldier the ‘professional’ way. We are all soldiers who go to war, we get a fruit bowl of fucking medals that shows our courage or wounds or where we’ve been. The shit that really distinguishes me in my ACU’s is my CIB. I flock to those who wear it because I just do. I’ve fought along side those who are not Infantry or SF and seen them do some courageous stuff. I don’t care what they wear they are still my brothers in Arms. But when I don’t know you, I will probably ask the guy with the CIB first where he’s been first! Why? Because I want to, gotta love the freedom’s I’ve fought for aye?

Now please stop sending me emails about your husband, boyfriend, son, daughter all being hero’s cause they have a CAB. I bet they earned it and that’s great, be proud of them.

I hope I’ve clarified my point. The CAB is not worthless is my eyes and I don’t know why my opinion matters so much. If you got some CAB story’s please post them or send me the narrative in an email to me and I may post them.

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