Sentences with phrase «in a combat zone»

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

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.

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.

Having worked with veterans, I know firsthand how difficult it is for them to share some of their stories with those who have not experienced combat or life in a combat zone.

One thing about ministry in combat zones is that usually we can't stop the combat — we can't fix their biggest need, which is to be secure.

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.

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

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

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.

If you're a member of the armed forces serving in a combat zone, you might be able to further extend your tax due date.

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.

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).

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

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.

Gold combat spurs are presented to troopers serving more than 30 days in a combat zone with a cavalry unit — a tradition beginning in the Civil War.

«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.

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.

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.

Pay received by members of the U.S. Armed Forces and support personnel in combat zones, including peace - keeping efforts.

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.

The day he arrived in a combat zone — a green replacement in a squad that had just lost five men in an ambush a few days before — he confronted the likelihood that he would not make it out alive.

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.

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.

Compounding the stress is the need to leave behind the behaviors that serve the veterans well in a combat zone.

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.

«One of the big benefits of having the school on base is the teachers and administrators are going to be trained in how to understand and identify and help these kids deal with the stress of having their father or mother in a combat zone.»

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

Now if you happen to be a US citizen or legal permanent resident who is working abroad, someone who is listed in the Armed Forces and currently in a combat zone or have experienced a disaster, there are special provisions for you.

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

When civilians or military personnel are imperiled in a combat zone a joint task force is formed to initiate a CSAR mission (combat search and rescue) to safely

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 council's 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