Deployment Patch For Kuwait
Note: This story has been. WASHINGTON – On Friday, the Defense Department announced that many areas will be removed from the list of places where U.S. Servicemembers qualify for imminent danger pay. “Today we are announcing the recertification of some locations as Imminent Danger Pay areas while we are discontinuing that designation for others,” Pentagon spokesman Col. Steve Warren told reporters. Of the areas previously designated for IDP, about one-third were decertified. IDP is intended to provide compensation bonuses to servicemembers deployed in locations that are relatively dangerous.
The following land areas and the airspace above them were decertified: Bahrain, Kuwait, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Serbia and Montenegro. The following land areas were decertified: East Timor, Haiti, Liberia, Oman, Rwanda, Tajikistan, United Arab Emirates, Kyrgyzstan and Uzbekistan. The following sea areas were decertified: Arabian Sea, Gulf of Aden, Gulf of Oman, the Red Sea and the Persian Gulf (including the airspace above the Persian Gulf). The following areas were recertified for IDP: Afghanistan (including airspace), Algeria, Azerbaijan, Burundi, Chad, Colombia, Cote d’Ivoire, Cuba, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Djibouti, Egypt, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Greece (Athens only), Indonesia, Iran, Iraq (including airspace), Israel, Jordan, Kenya, Kosovo, Lebanon, Libya (including airspace), Malaysia, Pakistan, Philippines, Somalia (including airspace), Sudan (including airspace), Syria, Tunisia (including airspace), Turkey, Uganda, Yemen, Mediterranean Sea, and Somalia Basin.
Some countries are on the IDP list even though the U.S. Doesn’t have any servicemembers deployed in those countries, including Syria and Iran. The changes will take effect June 1 in the U.S. Central Command, U.S.
European Command, U.S. Africa Command, U.S. Southern Command, and U.S. Pacific Command areas of responsibility. The IDP recertification review process began in 2011 and included an in-depth threat assessment from the combatant commands in coordination with the Joint Staff and the military services.
The last time the IDP list was changed was 2011. It is an ongoing assessment, Warren said.
In 2012, (the last year for which IDP statistics are available), about 194,000 servicemembers received IDP. Approximately 50,000 servicemembers will be affected after these changes are made, according to DOD spokesman Lt. Nate Christensen. In 2012, DOD spent approximately $500 million on IDP. This policy change will save DOD $108 million per year, officials said. Warren said these IDP cuts were not driven by budgetary concerns. The current IDP rate is $7.50 per day, with a maximum IDP of $225 per month.
Those numbers will not change, Christensen said. Experts told Stars and Stripes that IDP criteria make little sense.
They should make a im away from home patch for kuwait. We moved around quite a bit as tactical signal support during our deployment, but always came home to Kuwait. When can you officially wear a Combat Patch? Citizen Soldier Resource Center. My unit deployed to kuwait and was sending Soldiers to Iraq for one to two.
Soldiers in Operation Inherent Resolve eligible for GWOT. Service members deployed to Bahrain. Israel, Iran, Jordan, Kuwait, Lebanon, Qatar, Saudi.
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“Our men and women help to bring peace and stability to many places, and just because Imminent Danger Pay is discontinued doesn’t suddenly make those countries, waters or airspaces any more safe. One can only hope that this decision was done based on real world threat assessments and not for fiscal reasons,” Joe Davis, the Public Affairs Director for the Veterans of Foreign Wars, said in an email to Stars and Stripes.
Lawrence Korb, a military budget expert at the Center for American Progress, believes that budget constraints did play a role in the policy change, but he supports the IDP rollback. “I think what’s happened is that the sequester and the budget cuts really have forced the department to do things they should have been doing anyway,” he said. Korb thinks IDP has been too generously distributed. “You got combat pay in Bahrain.
I was in Bahrain a couple weeks ago. I’d sooner be there than some of the cities in the United States when it comes to personal safety,” he said in an interview with Stars and Stripes. The IDP changes will not impact deployed servicemembers’ Combat Zone Tax Exclusion status, except for those serving in Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan and Uzbekistan. Personnel deployed to those three countries will no longer be eligible for CZTE tax breaks after the IDP designation is removed. “At this time, no decision has been made to end the Combat Zone Tax Exclusion benefit program,” Christensen said in an email to Stars and Stripes. CZTE is a provision in the Internal Revenue Service tax code that provides tax relief to U.S.
Military and support personnel involved in military operations in combat areas. DOD also announced that, effective June 1, Hardship Duty Pay-Location monthly rates in East Timor, Haiti, Liberia, Montenegro, Rwanda, Saudi Arabia, Serbia, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan and Uzbekistan will be increased to $150. The HDP-L monthly rate in Bahrain is established at $50, according to a memo signed on Dec. 31 by Acting Under Secretary of Defense for Personnel and Readiness Jessica Wright. HDP-L is intended to compensate servicemembers who are deployed in areas where living conditions are poor.
From my perspective as a grunt, I would definitely consider Kosovo more of a combat zone than Kuwait. Granted it's a 'peace-keeping mission,' the hostility is still very much alive and well there. People still rig up hand grenades to vehicles, there are still riots and of course Serbia still hasn't given up on keeping them as part of Serbia and not an independent state.
When we were on a convoy from Bondsteel to Monteith, we came to an accident where a little kid was run over by a garbage truck. The driver was one ethnic group, the kid was the other. They had to get the driver out of there fast before the angry mob of villagers got a hold of him and did something horrible.
Not only that but take Eagle Base in Tuzla, Bosnia for example. There's still UXO INSIDE the wire. Well, I think the worst injury there that's happened since Desert Storm is an infected paper cut. There's a pool on base, for crying out loud. This thread sums it up 28–17. Shoulder sleeve insignia-former wartime service (SSI–FWTS) a.
Authorization to wear a shoulder sleeve insignia indicating former wartime service applies only to soldiers who are assigned to U.S. Army units that meet all the following criteria.
Soldiers who were prior members of other Services that participated in operations that would otherwise meet the criteria below are not authorized to wear the SSI–FWTS. Wear is reserved for individuals who were members of U.S.
Army units during the operations. (1) The Secretary of the Army or higher must declare as a hostile environment the theater or area of operation to which the unit is assigned, or Congress must pass a Declaration of War. (2) The units must have actively participated in, or supported ground combat operations against hostile forces in which they were exposed to the threat of enemy action or fire, either directly or indirectly.
(3) The military operation normally must have lasted for a period of thirty (30) days or longer. An exception may be made when U.S.
Army forces are engaged with a hostile force for a shorter period of time, when they meet all other criteria, and a recommendation from the general or flag officer in command is forwarded to the Chief of Staff, Army. (4) The Chief of Staff, Army, must approve the authorization for wear of the shoulder sleeve insignia for former wartime service. Authorization applies only to members of the Army who were assigned overseas with U.S. Army (1) World War II: between 7 December 1941 and 2 September 1946, both dates inclusive. (2) Korea: between 27 June 1950 and 27 July 1954, both dates inclusive. Also from 1 April 1968 to 31 August 1973, for those personnel who were awarded the Purple Heart, Combat Infantryman badge, Combat Medical badge, or who qualified for at least one month’s hostile fire pay for service in a hostile fire area in Korea.
(3) The Vietnam theater, including Thailand, Laos and Cambodia: from 1 July 1958 to 28 March 1973, both dates inclusive. (4) The Dominican Republic: 29 April 1965 to 21 September 1966, both dates inclusive.
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Individuals are authorized to wear one of three organizational SSI: XVIII Airborne Corps, 82d Airborne Division, or 5th Logistical Command. Individuals previously attached, assigned, or under the operational control of these units will wear their respective insignia. A fourth organizational SSI (OEA-Spanish equivalent of Organization of American States) is authorized for individuals who were not in one of the three units listed above.
(5) Grenada, to include the Green and Carriacou Islands: between 24 October 1983 and 21 November 1983, both dates inclusive. Personnel are authorized to wear one of the following organizational SSI: XVIII Airborne Corps; 82d Airborne Division; 1st Special Operations Command (ABN); 1st Corps Support Command; 20th Engineer Brigade; 35th Signal Brigade; 16th Military Police Brigade; 44th Medical Brigade; 1st Battalion (Ranger), 75th Ranger Regiment; 2d Battalion (Ranger), 75th Ranger Regiment; and 101st Airborne Division (AASLT).
Individuals attached to, or under the operational control of these units will wear their respective organizational SSI. Individuals attached to, or under the operational control of any unit whose parent organization is not authorized SSI, will wear the SSI of the unit to which attached or the unit that had operational control. (6) Lebanon: from 6 August 1983 to 24 April 1984, for soldiers assigned to the Field Artillery School Target Acquisition Battery or the 214th Field Artillery Brigade, who were attached to the U.S. Marine Corps forces in and around Beirut, Lebanon, for the purpose of counterfire support.
(7) Korea: 23 November 1984, for soldiers who directly participated in the firefight with North Korean guards at the Joint Security Area (JSA), Panmunjom, Korea. (8) Persian Gulf: from 27 July 1987 to 1 August 1990 for soldiers assigned or attached to, or under the operational control of a unit whose mission was direct support to Operation Earnest Will. Soldiers must have been eligible for the Armed Forces Expeditionary Medal and imminent danger pay. (9) Panama: from 20 December 1989 to 31 January 1990 for soldiers assigned to the following units, and who participated in Operation Just Cause: XVIII Airborne Corps; U.S.
Army Special Operations Command; U.S. Army South; 7th Infantry Division (Light); 82d Airborne Division; 5th Infantry Division (M); 1st Special Operations Command; 193d Infantry Brigade; 1stCorps Support Command; 16thMilitary Police Brigade; 18thAviation Brigade; 35th Signal Brigade; 7th Special Forces Group; 75th Ranger Regiment; 1st, 2d, and 3d Battalions, 75thRanger Regiment; 470thMilitary Intelligence Brigade; 525thMilitary Intelligence Brigade; 44th Medical Brigade; 1109th Signal Brigade; Military Surface Deployment and Distribution Command; and CIDC. Soldiers assigned to units not listed above will wear the shoulder sleeve insignia of the unit to which attached, or the unit that had operational control. Soldiers assigned to units not listed above and not attached to, or under the operational control of any of the units listed above, will wear the SSI of the U.S. (10) The Persian Gulf: from 17 January 1991 to 31 August 1993, both dates inclusive, for soldiers participating in Operation Desert Storm. Soldiers must have been assigned or attached to, or under the operational control of a unit whose mission was direct support to Operation Desert Storm; they must have received imminent danger pay and been under the command and control of U.S. Army Element Central Command (USAE CENTCOM).
Deployment Patch For Kuwait
(11) El Salvador: from 1 January 1981 to 1 February 1992, both dates inclusive, for those personnel who participated in El Salvador operations. (12) Somalia: from 5 December 1992 to 31 March 1995, both dates inclusive, for soldiers who participated in Operation Restore Hope/Continue Hope/United Shield.
Exceptions are for Joint Task Forces: Patriot Defender, Elusive Concept, and Proven Force; those personnel are authorized to wear SSI–FWTS even though they were not under the command and control of USAE CENTCOM. (13) Operation Enduring Freedom: from 19 September 2001 to a date to be determined, for soldiers assigned to Afghanistan, Pakistan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, and Uzbekistan; and from 31 July 2002 to a date to be determined, for soldiers deployed to the CENTCOM area of operations in support of Operation Enduring Freedom authorized combat zone tax exclusion as identified by CENTCOM CCJ1 AOR Danger Pay Entitlements. Soldiers who were deployed in the area of operations on training exercises or in support of operations other than Operation Enduring Freedom are not authorized the SSI-FWTS, unless those exercises or operations became combat or support missions to Operation Enduring Freedom. (14) Operation Iraqi Freedom: from 19 March 2003 to a date to be determined, for soldiers assigned to units participating in Operation Iraqi Freedom. Soldiers must have been deployed in the CENTCOM area of operations, or participated in Operation Iraqi Freedom while deployed in Turkey, Israel, and Aegis cruisers. Soldiers who served with the 1st Marine Division from 19 March 2003 to 21 April 2003 during combat operations in support of Operation Iraqi Freedom are authorized to wear the 1st Marine Division shoulder sleeve insignia as their SSI-FWTS.
Soldiers who were deployed in the area of operations on training exercises or in support of operations other than Iraqi Freedom are not authorized the SSI-FWTS, unless those exercises or operations became combat or support missions to Operation Iraqi Freedom. The closest I see to Kosovo is Korea, and thats not close at all.make him take it off. He is clearly outside the reg. This should be a really easy for you to show as well.since Kosovo isn't even mentioned.and if he (or anyone claims they were) was with another service.the following provision would apply. (3) Other services. The Department of the Navy, the United States Marine Corps (USMC), and the Air Force do not authorize wear of SSI. Therefore, personnel who served in one of the designated areas during one of the specified periods, but who were not members of the U.S.
Army, are not authorized to wear the SSI–FWTS on their right shoulder. The only exception to this policy is for U.S. Army members who served with the USMC during World War II from 15 March 1943 through 2 September 1946 II from 15 March 1943 through 2 September 1946. Bottom line was that Kosovo/Bosnia was declared a beligerent against the US to rate a combat patch and the soldiers that serve in Kuwait have TCS/PCS orders in direct support of OIF/OEF thus rating a combat patch.