No, not if you look at them closely. Indirect fire was a normal part of many a Navy sailor's life when deployed to Iraq or Afghanistan but only a handful got a CAR for it, some sailors got them before they tightened up the requirements, while CAB's where often handed out for just that. So yes, the vast majority of CAB's that I saw awarded (right term?) personally did not meet the CAR criteria, hence the differentiation in the Navy instruction between the CIB, CMB and the CAB and which ones can be converted to a CAR and which ones can't. The Navy would not have made those distinctions, in pretty thorough detail, without having pretty good justification.