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 How did you earn your CIB? (currently 1 views) |
| Frenchie |
| Posted on: April 19th, 2016, 7:03pm |
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Maximum Member2 LIke to hear from anyone that was Co C 4/31
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How did you get that CIB? im hoping to generate some interest, after all MOST if not all of us earned one.
For me, its almost embarrassing.....I was with Co C 4/31 and joined the company in March68. We were on LZ Polar Bear waiting for my company to trot in. They came in and met the guys.....we were there a day or so when all of a sudden we got sniped at from some rice paddy wayyyy out there...i certainly didnt feel like was in danger. ONE bad guy taking pot shots at us...and thats how I earned mine......of course, we retruned fine at some inviisble target probably 1/4 mile away with 105MM arty.....dont know if they got him but it did get quiet. No one got hit as far as I know.
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Frenchie - Gilbert E Manasselian
C 4/31 Feb 68 to Feb 69
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| Jim Armstrong |
| Posted on: April 22nd, 2016, 7:17pm |
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The official requirements are these (for COL and below only):
"Performing duties while personally present and under fire while serving in an assigned infantry, ranger or Special Forces capacity, in a unit of brigade, regimental, or smaller size, engaged in active ground combat, to close with and destroy the enemy with direct fires."
I don't think that a specific "first contact" by time or place is part of it. but I could be wrong.
A pet peeve of mine is that David Petraeus got a Bronze Star with V device for just that: there was shooting somewhere nearby. |
Jim Armstrong
C, HQ, A 2/1
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| Frenchie |
| Posted on: April 22nd, 2016, 7:52pm |
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Maximum Member2 LIke to hear from anyone that was Co C 4/31
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Bronze? Id call that a serious upgrade...however i seem to recall something along those lines....if a
grunt got a meritorious medal at the end of his tour (attaboy medal) it would probably be an Army Commendation Medal....but if an officer got a attaboy medal it probably would be a Bronze Star (no V). I could be mistaken....love to hear from an officer . |
Frenchie - Gilbert E Manasselian
C 4/31 Feb 68 to Feb 69
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| Gregory B Peters |
| Posted on: April 30th, 2016, 9:36pm |
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Maximum Member2 B company, 3/21/196th, incountry 07/1966-07/1967
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| He is a strange case Jim. His full dress uniform makes him look like a doorman at the Ritz. I remember seeing Eisenhower in full dress wearing only one bar with 4 or 5 ribbons. Petraeus wears like 10 bars topped off by the Combat Action badge not the CIB. he does have an EIB and Ranger TAb, was also infantry as a junior officer. must not have seen any action until he was a two star. CAB seems to have been invented in 2001 for Generals and others who met the same qualification as the CIB but were not 11 Bravos. I think he got his CAB for the same mortar strike as his Bronze Star. Also Frenchie, he has the ACM with two oak leaves. |
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| Frenchie |
| Posted on: May 1st, 2016, 12:01am |
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Maximum Member2 LIke to hear from anyone that was Co C 4/31
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| i never paid attention but the guy sounds like a russian general....chest full of medals |
Frenchie - Gilbert E Manasselian
C 4/31 Feb 68 to Feb 69
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| Jim Armstrong |
| Posted on: May 1st, 2016, 3:33pm |
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Here is ol' Dave's citation for his unwarranted medal. It took years before it was available to the public:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:PetraeusBSM_VDevice.jpg
I have read that he was looking at a map on a vehicle hood when there was some gunfire om the distance. He probably had a bunch of staff officers with him who were similarly recognized.
He is not an honest man. |
Jim Armstrong
C, HQ, A 2/1
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| rodney |
| Posted on: May 11th, 2016, 8:25pm |
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| We do know that the General cannot keep secrets, or keep his zipper up...other than that alot of soldiers were awarded medals that others deserved.... |
Rodney C-3/21 68-69 |
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