Do I get combat pay and a combat patch for getting deployed to Saudi Arabia?

I hear ya Maj. I got mine in Vietnam...

because getting one is not very fun.

I agree with ya Major. Both of my combat deployments were associated with un pleasant GI complaints. Doc ENZ, OEF2 and OIF2 vet

BG Robert Enzenauer - I provided care for many blown up kids and detainees we did not succeed in killing on the battlefield. I could have done without seeing children blown up in Afghanistan.

CSM (Join to see) - CSM, I won't lie. I was taken aback when I was told KSA was a combat zone. The way it was explained to me was because PSAB was in direct path of missiles between KSA and Yemen...that's why HP/IDP was received and that made it combat zone.

CSM (Join to see) - All it did was give me a little extra pay for 4 months and the ability to wear another patch on my sleeve for a unit that I refuse to wear.

Understandable. Stay healthy and safe.

CSM (Join to see) - The awarding of a combat patch is location based both on the location and the potential for combat related injury or death. Being directly involved in combat and under enemy fire is usually signified by the CIB, CMB, and the CAB.

Yeah Kobar towers. Many hi rise dwellings that were empty. I was told the people had nowhere to put their camels. I don’t know if that was true or not. CW3 Ed Heick

The city was built prior to Desert Shield, went up in 5 months. It felt like it. After the bombing there we were moved to tent city, until that was bombed, then Americana Hotel until that was bombed, underground airport, back to tent city . As well as the other glorious cities and countries where we got to see while there, Not. As far as camels... that's a story in themselves...

I went to a wonderful banquet in Kuwait. The food was delicious. CW3 Ed Heick

We went right after they took out the airport in Kuwait City. Added incentive to leave was the oil well fires, ditches by the ocean and herds of Bedouins moving sheep down the road.. Was better in Bahrain and UAE across the bridges... and then there was hardly anything there ...