Sentences with phrase «all in a combat zone»

The ranking contains cities with populations of more than 300,000 and does not count deaths in combat zones or cities with unavailable data, so some dangerous cities don't appear on the list

It's not even clear that wealth itself is an aspirational goal anymore — at least not one that anyone will admit to out loud (especially in the combat zone of Toronto's emerging class war).

Although the black beret had been authorized for wear with field uniforms as well as service uniforms in 2001, it was further approved for use in a combat zone with the introduction of the ACU.

I hear what you are saying, but most times it is the clergy who are the only on - site counceling that is offered in combat zones.

But as for me and mine, they «the liberals» want me to live in a combat zone where innocent little killers and rapist steal and murder with impunity.

But we do undertake to prepare our relief teams to be functional in combat zones, which entails an understanding of how combat happens and how to move in those situations.

Governor Cuomo has directed the flags on all State buildings to be lowered to half - staff in honor of and tribute to our State's service members who are killed in action or die in a combat zone.

The alternative exemption provides a property tax exemption of 15 % of assessed value to veterans who served during wartime and an additional 10 % to those who served in a combat zone.

Governor Cuomo has directed that the flags on all state buildings be lowered to half - staff in honor of, and in tribute to, our state's service members who are killed in action or die in a combat zone.

Governor Paterson has directed the flags on all State buildings to be lowered to half - staff in honor and tribute to our State's service members who are killed in action or die in a combat zone.

Maj. Gen. Harold J. Greene, A two - star general from the Capital Region, became the highest - ranking American military officer to be killed in a combat zone since the Vietnam War on Tuesday when a gunman dressed as an Afghan soldier opened fire on U.S. and coalition leaders touring a military academy in Kabul.

I was wondering what the governor New York was doing in a combat zone 8,000 miles away until I saw the hastily - put - together campaign ads extolling his support of veterans.

The most recent version of the legislation, called the Montgomery GI Bill, provides a fixed monthly stipend based on length of service, deployment in a combat zone, and whether the service member was in the regular ranks or the reserves.

For students who started classes before they were called up for active duty, time spent in a combat zone, even if not under direct fire, disrupted academic progress.

In combat zones like Afghanistan and Mali, on humanitarian missions in places like Haiti and the Philippines, and on peacekeeping missions in Rwanda or Kosovo, the challenges are accentuated with each new case, telescoped in a short period of time «This isn't M * A * S * H,» said Williams - Jones.

The distance detection method — called stand - off bomb detection — improves safety, particularly for soldiers in combat zones.

While a 2011 Pew Research Center report revealed that a majority of Americans are apathetic or disapproving of the post-9 / 11 wars the military fought or is fighting, at the same time, Americans simultaneously feel «pride, gratitude, and confidence» towards the more than 2.6 million troops who have served in combat zones since 9/11.

«We've been waiting for this,» says Donald Jenkins, trauma director at Saint Mary's Hospital in Rochester, Minn., and a 24 - year Air Force veteran who has spent more than 700 days in combat zones, including in Afghanistan and Iraq.

But «it's much harder to conduct a field trial in a combat zone».

Despite the environmental stress that comes with being in a combat zone, I was able to start my day energized, focused, and feeling great, with a full reservoir of willpower to spend on the decisions and actions I needed to survive and accomplish my mission as a Navy SEAL leader during wartime.

What happened is, let's say you spend a year in a combat zone or even six months, every day your sympathetic nervous system is just getting bombarded.

I'm a pretty blessed individual who has spent time in combat zones in the middle east & I try not to take the simple things for granted.

The softened America at its nadir - with undemanding schools, unpunished crime, rampant welfare, a feckless army under a timid national policy in Vietnam - is the setting for Saul Bellow's Mr. Sammler's Planet of 1970 and Tim O'Brien's If I Die in a Combat Zone of 1973.

Related Reading: Fiction: Going After Cacciato by Tim O'Brien; Fields of Fire by James Webb; Meditations in Green by Stephen Wright; In Country by Bobbie Ann Mason; The Things They Carried by Tim O'Brien; The Sorrow of War by Bao Ninh; Tree of Smoke by Denis Johnson Nonfiction: If I Die in a Combat Zone by Tim O'Brien; Dispatches by Michael Herr; A Rumor of War by Philip Caputo; In Pharaoh's Army by Tobias Wolff Reading group guide by Ed Conklin

According to a June 2015 New York Times article, a 2013 study conducted by the U.S. Department of Defense revealed that drone pilots suffered from the same instance of job - related problems (such as depression and PTSD) as pilots who were deployed in combat zones in Iraq and Afghanistan.

While serving in a combat zone, certain combat pay is not taxable.

If you are stationed in a combat zone for at least one day out of a month, not only should you receive a nontaxable combat pay allowance for that month, but the entire month's regular salary may be excluded from your taxable income.

Unless you received payment for service in a combat zone, include these items in your reported gross income:

Doing other tax - related acts (which were performed on or after the start date for your combat zone, or the date you began serving in that combat zone, whichever is later; deadline extensions begin on the day you started the services)

If you were a civilian who served in a combat zone or a qualified hazardous duty area in support of the U.S. Armed Forces, you can receive a deadline extension for various items, including:

If you are stationed abroad in a combat zone during the 2016 tax season, you might qualify for a federal tax extension.

Enlisted members, warrant officers or commissioned warrant officers who serve any portion of a month in a combat zone have all their pay for that month excluded.

If you are a commissioned officer, your pay in a combat zone is excluded from taxes, but the amount is limited to the highest rate of enlisted pay for a month.

Sadly, many of our returning military veterans are having a difficult time transitioning back into civilian life and need some extra help recovering, especially if they are coming from tours of duty in combat zones.

Event cards are simply a case of doing whatever the text tells you to do, but enemy cards in the combat zone will strike player's each turn, forcing them to draw a card from the strike deck that alongside doing damage could carry other negative effects.

When it comes to combating enemies in the «verse or in the combat zone you simply spend attack points equal to the value printed on the card and then toss the target in the discard pile.

I'm not talking about the location of the game or names of weapons or any of that crap, I'm talking about what it actually feels like to be in a combat zone.

As Ryder, you're equipped with jump - jets that let you zip, dodge and jump away in combat zones (no fall damage too!).

This is only available in the Combat Zone.

In Tales of Berseria, your party and the enemies are all in a combat zone that you can freely run around in, locking onto different enemies, and performing real time combos, blocks, or dodge - rolls.

The principal draw in online, though, has less to do with soldier classes, match types and unlockables, and more to do with creating your own moments of brilliance — either solo or with your teammates — in the combat zone.

For his second solo exhibition at angels barcelona and in Spain, Harun Farocki presents his last work Serious Games composed by 4 video - installations: Immersion (2009), Watson is Down, Three Dead and A Sun with no Shadow (2010), he explores the connection between virtual reality and the military — how the fictional scenarios of computer games are used both in the training of US troops prior to their deployment in combat zones, and in psychological care for soldiers suffering battlefield trauma upon their return.

The Seabees also built quarters for the Marines serving in combat zones in Iraq.

Reviewed over 550 - subsistence deliveries worth over $ 10.5 million of subsistence, ensured health protection in a combat zone.

He is also the first known Army Soldier to certify as a Senior Professional in Human Resources in a combat zone.

Stationed both at main camp and down range at outposts in combat zones.

«These young graduates don't know what they may encounter on a deployment or in a combat zone,» said Leslie G. Walthall, PharmD, LTC, MS, Program Director and Army Service Lead for the DoD Pharmacy Technician Training Program.

In the 18 months that followed the largest call - up of the Texas Army National Guard since World War II, Terri Romere and her husband, Bill, collected and shipped thousands of phone cards, toiletries, and other items donated by Round Rock families, schools, and places of worship to make life easier for military personnel in the combat zone.

Not exact matches

«Others have deployed to combat zones in Iraq and Afghanistan.»

With its activation has come a massive increase in the American footprint, and its first combat engagement — Operation Odyssey Dawn, which enacted a no - fly zone over Libya.