To: Old Teufel Hunden
No Combat Action Ribbon, they didn’t shoot back.
68 posted on
05/19/2010 12:52:57 PM PDT by
usmcobra
(Your chances of dying in bed are reduced by getting out of it, but most people still die in bed)
To: usmcobra
"No Combat Action Ribbon, they didn’t shoot back."
You're right. I forgot about that. You have to have been under a mortar, rocket or artillery attack. Or you have to have been fired upon and returned fire. Thanks for reminding me.
To: usmcobra
One other thing about CARs. We did not earn them in Somalia even though we were in plenty of firefights. The reason, it was considered a humanitarian mission and not a combat mission. Could have fooled me.
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