re: Who here has seen combat?

It's not about the big picture or anything like that at all. It was all in the moment and about your brothers in arms.

Anyone who's had Taco Bell after 10 pm has

Not me, however one of my uncles was in Normandy and I would ask him to tell me about being in combat. He did not like to talk about any of it but when we went squirrel hunting together I kept at him and he would describe the arse puckering scenarios.

Only the dead have seen the end of war.

-Popularly attributed to Plato.

99% boredom with 1% terror. Or Iraq was like that.

Best and worst year of my life.

I don't have a CUB. I was a 19K M1A2 Abraams tanker for 20 years. But when the tanks weren't needed, we played infantry and kicked in doors. A CIB just means you served in theater.

Yeah I'm a DAT and I have great respect for the COB and the guys I served with that earned them. What I was responding to was the statement that if you don't have a CIB then you don't know what combat is.

Dude, no. There are plenty of close combat examples for the CAB. And there are plenty of indirect fire CIB examples. And what about the CMB?

Don't go down this trail. We are all brothers.

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My uncle, cousin and good friend saw it. They have all said nothing compares to it and wish upon none

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And be live it or not, there's a reason for those. We were DATs, infantry was track grease (or crunchies).