{"id":64698,"date":"2016-03-05T12:02:49","date_gmt":"2016-03-05T17:02:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=64698"},"modified":"2016-03-05T12:46:27","modified_gmt":"2016-03-05T17:46:27","slug":"101st-rescinds-no-combat-patch-policy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=64698","title":{"rendered":"101st unit rescinds “no combat patch” policy"},"content":{"rendered":"

I noticed a lot of activity on a post that I wrote last year<\/a> about a 4th Division Brigade commander in Colorado who had a brain fart and was tempted to make his combat veterans remove their earned combat patches from their right shoulders to make the newbies feel better about themselves. Now I find that folks were confusing my post with events at the 101st Division where another officer listened to the Good Idea Fairy and wanted to make a Brigade in that division more inclusive according to a link sent by Sparky<\/a>;<\/p>\n

According to a news release from the 101st Airborne Division, soldiers from the 3rd BCT, while completing a gunnery exercise at Fort Knox, were told to remove their combat patches to “build cohesion.”<\/p>\n

On Thursday, 101st officials said no such directive was given from brigade leadership. The directive, according to the release, came from somewhere else in the brigade.<\/p>\n

The soldiers will now be permitted to wear their combat patches during training.<\/p>\n

“This was a well-intended action taken by a leader that was not well thought out and was quickly corrected,” said Brig. Gen. Scott E. Brower, acting senior commander of the 101st, in a news release.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

When my battalion came back from Desert Storm, we had a change of command at the battalion and at brigade, both of the incoming commanders were slick-sleeves who hadn’t deployed to our little adventure, somehow they didn’t feel a need make us take off our combat patches or our CIBs to feel included in our activities. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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