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Combat Action Badge ceremony 2006
Sixty-one uniformed Army National Guard soldiers stood at attention as a two-star general stepped up to address them. The Adjutant General, Major General David P. Rataczak, first apologized to the 44 area soldiers who had seen combat in Iraq, but had not yet received the deserved Combat Action Badge. Because of its central location, this military ceremony was held at the American Legion building in Payson, Arizona on Saturday, Dec. 2, 2006.
The war in Iraq has demonstrated that any soldier - from a cook, to a driver, to an infantryman - can be exposed to insurgent attacks, and the Army is seeking to honor anyone who is personally present and actively engaging or engaged by the enemy.
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