Alabama Army Combat Infantrymen - I-65 Welcome Center - Ardmore, AL
Posted by: YoSam.
N 34° 57.271 W 086° 53.508
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The Army is serious about this badge. Army member without a infantry MOS can see all the combat they want and will NEVER get this badge.
Waymark Code: WMYD9T
Location: Alabama, United States
Date Posted: 06/01/2018
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County of rest area: Limestone County
Location of rest area: 3 miles S. of AL/TN line on I-65, near Ardmore
Monument Text:
(front):
DEDICATED TO ALL ALABAMA
COMBAT INFANTRYMEN
Freedom Has A Price
The Protected Will Never Know
Erected by the Combat Infantrymen's Association
Alabama Chapter
(rear):
TO HONOR ALL COMBAT
INFANTRYMEN
We were boys and we were young
We became men on that hill we overran
Some of us lived, many of us died
For a moment with us abide
and Join in prayer with me
To honor those of the Combat Infantry
To explain how special this Army badge is, I have a friend, who spent 13 months in combat in Vietnam. He was in the US Army, Cavalry actually, but fought with infantry units....
HE can NEVER receive this badge, because he did not have an infantry MOS, he was designated Cavalry.
"The Combat Infantryman Badge (CIB) is a United States Army military award. The badge is awarded to infantrymen and Special Forces soldiers in the rank of colonel and below, who fought in active ground combat while assigned as members of either an Infantry, Ranger or Special Forces unit, of brigade size or smaller, any time after 6 December 1941." ~ Wikipedia