Scarecrow
Army Veteran
Are you kidding me dude? So, by your logic, since I (an 11B) have been attached to an ODA while conducting air assaults in Laghman Province, Afghanistan are saying that I should be wearing an SF tab right now? Just... stop..
...completely different scenario. To get the SF tab, you have to have gone through training and been assigned to a SF unit. I wear a Marine patch (MarDiv1) on my right arm, but I've never been a Marine, simply because I was attached to them while I was deployed. I also have a Naval award in my ribbon cluster, because the Naval forces we attached to gave it to us for keeping their asses out of the fire.
If I had been attached directly to an infantry unit, I could have earned a CIB while I was there, but a female medic assigned to the same unit and stood side by side with us the entire tour would never be able to earn the same award, even after doing the exact same thing.