Then post what you read. In order to earn the CIB you have to personally be engaged with the enemy in combat:
Not next to it, not just in a combat zone, not in just in the same country. In actual combat ****. Now, take *** whooping and mosey on on out of here unless you got a credible source that says otherwise.
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To earn the
Combat Infantryman Badge (CIB) in the U.S. Army, a soldier must be an infantry or Special Forces officer (colonel or below) or an enlisted soldier with an 11-series or 18-series MOS, be assigned to an infantry/SF unit during active ground combat,
and personally engage the enemy, according to HRC and
Wikipedia.