This is a public service announcement for prior service personnel:
This is a project to have the Combat Action Badge award made retroactive to December 7, 1941.
The Navy-Marine Combat Action Ribbon, first awarded in 1969, was made retroactive to December 7, 1941. The Army Combat Medic Badge was first awarded in 1945 and made retroactive to December 7, 1941. The Combat Infantryman Badge was approved in 1943 and made retroactive to December 6, 1941.
The Army Combat Action Badge, first awarded in 2005, was made retroactive only to September 18, 2001.
If an Army soldier, from December 7, 1941, through September 17, 2011, meets the requirements for this award, they should be accorded the same recognition as the soldiers currently entitled to wear the Combat Action Badge. Therefore, when the Army Board for Correction of Military Records, upon presentation of proper evidence, shall correct their records to show the award of the Combat Action Badge. Many non-infantry soldiers from World II, Korea, Vietnam, Grenada, Panama, El Salvador, Somalia, the Balkans, actively engaged, or were engaged by, an armed enemy.
Petition at:
http://www.change.org/petitions/the-...ecember-7-1941