What? No! I can just watch you paint the walls and get credit for just showing up. This whole thing got me thinking about my time in Panama. It was a combat z

What? No! I can just watch you paint the walls and get credit for just showing up. This whole thing got me thinking about my time in Panama. It was a combat zone but we weren’t doing war stuff so didn’t get combat patches even though we qualified because the 82nd doesn’t give out participation trophies. Hell, they were talking about not giving us Combat Infantry Badges for the Gulf War even though we were running ops in Iraq before the ground war started because they all surrendered once it did. Though…I used to call my CIB “my participation trophy” when I was in the reserves years later.