How do you feel about an expert armor badge? Its similiar to EIB but with higher skill level due to technical nature

At some point, it becomes everyone gets a badge.

I have served in Air Cavalry, mechanized infantry, light infantry, and aviation units. I earned the CIB in OEF as an infantry ETT out in the field with the ANA. I also earned the Aircraft Crewmember Badge at the basic and senior level and basic parachutist badge. From my experience in Afghanistan, every reservist or national guards soldier deployed to Afghanistan received at least six ribbons or medals just for showing up. Don't believe me, lets count:
1. Army Overseas Ribbon
2. Armed Forces Reserve Medal w/ M device
3. Army Good Conduct Medal (if they haven't already earned one)
4. Global War on Terror Service Medal
5. Afghanistan Service Medal
6. NATO (non-article 5) Medal (ISAF)
7. National Defense Service Medal
8. Any end-of-tour medals or valor medals
9. CIB or CAB?
When a PFC with two years in and one deployment ends up looking like CSM with 30 years in, this is a sign that the US military awards system has become too bloated with medals, ribbons, and badges.

Do I think there should be expert badges for other branches? Maybe, as long as the tests to earn them include the same rigorous combat related tasks that the EIB and EFMB require. This would reflect the reality that most every soldier, no matter what MOS, must be prepared to fight, survive, and perform their job in a combat environment. As we have seen in recent history, soldiers from supply to transportation to civil affairs...have found themselves in similar situations as combat arms soldiers. If there is going to be an expert badge for other branches, make it as challenging to get as the existing expert badges.

Serious consideration needs to be made before adding anymore badges or medals.

Well let's see if I can stir up a whole lotta crap with my response, being that I am one of the senior SMEs from the Armor Branch. 1) Yes their should be an EIA Badge as well as a CTB(Combat Tanker Badge). I have earned my Spurs both through combat operations against the enemy in '03 and during my Spur Ride in '92 while assigned to the 11th ACR in Fulda, Germany. While a great accomplishment to me and my fellow Spur Brothers, it is not an officially recognized award that is placed upon ones ERB. And before anyone from the 11 Series community chimes in about grueling this, that or the other, a timed 26K ruckmarch with 9 test stations along that ruckmarch in and around Fulda, Germany was plenty grueling.
2) Combat operations in 2 of our last 3 major conflicts; DS/DS, OEF & OIF, were MOSTLY mounted fights and many of those awarded CIBs rode into these fights in the back of BFVs, M113s or on the back of trucks. They did not slog on foot for years on end like they had to in WWII, Korea and Vietnam, where the hardships of the Infantryman were so much more than in any other MOS.
3) SSG Timothy Thomas, the black beret, prior to being "given" to the Rangers in 1979, was worn by Armor and Cav units of the US Army, as it has been by tankers in almost all of the world's armies since WWI.
4) Mastering the tank and the different responsibilities inherent with being a member of a tank crew takes a great deal of technical knowledge that mostly comes through experience, just as mastering the technical aspects of being an Infantryman requires, so why is there not a means of recognizing this mastery that is officially recognized and rewarded?
I have nothing but respect and luv for my Infantry brethren, but I do not to this day, after having served a 26-year career as a tanker, understand why there is such vitriol and all out branch hatred towards the creation and awarding of either an EIA badge and a CTB. The powers that be, a long time before most of us were born and definitely before almost all of us served, created the CIB as a means of recognizing the particular hardships inherent in the lives of the combat Infantryman during WWII and rightly so, however since the end of the Vietnam War, unless one is strictly a "light" Infantryman that is no longer the case. 11 series already have the inherent right to be the only branch authorized to wear a colored disc behind their branch insignia as well as their beloved blue cord and I hold no animosity toward them for that. However when it comes to the creation and awarding of an EIA/CTB, I feel that "Big" Army, to this day gets it wrong.

"TREAT 'EM ROUGH!!"