Springville Herald | 1969-04-03 | Page 5 | Pfc. Johnson Receives Badge |

Type	issue
Date	1969-04-03
Paper	Springville Herald
Language	eng
City	Springville
County	Utah
Rights	No Copyright - United States (NoC-US)
Publisher	Digitized by J. Willard Marriott Library, University of Utah
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Article Title	Pfc. Johnson Receives Badge
Type	article
Date	1969-04-03
Paper	Springville Herald
Language	eng
City	Springville
County	Utah
Page	5
OCR Text	Show Pfc. Johnson receives badge One of the Army badges that soldiers wear with special pride is the Combat Infantryman Badge. It was awarded to Private Pri-vate First Class Steven M. Johnson, 20, near Pleiku. Vietnam, Viet-nam, March 8. Pvt. Johnson, whose parents, Mr .and Mrs. Wayne L. Shep-ard, Shep-ard, live at 191 West 200 South, Springville, is assigned to the 4th Infantry Division as a rifleman. rifle-man. The CIB has been awarded since late in World War II for sustained ground contact against an enemy. In honor of its singular meaning, the badge is worn above all other awards and decorations, dec-orations, over the left breast. It is a blue rectangle with a silver rifle mounted on it superimposed super-imposed over a curved wreath. Subsequent awards are represented repre-sented by stars at the top center cen-ter of the wreath.
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