Sentences with phrase «killed in a war zone»

At that time, service members could not purchase life insurance that would pay a death benefit if the member was killed in a war zone.

At that time, members of the U.S. military were not allowed to buy life insurance that would pay out the death benefit proceeds if the member was killed in a war zone.

Not exact matches

«As bad as it is, people understand when a soldier is killed in combat in a war zone like Iraq or Afghanistan,» Beebe said outside the church.

The government has been accused of blocking attempts to regulate private security contractors operating in war zones around the world, despite recent incidents showing mercenaries killing indiscriminately in Iraq.

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.

After admitting for the first time that four American citizens had been inadvertently killed in the crossfire of unmanned attacks, the administration announced a new policy guidance that will limit the number of drone strikes that can be carried out in places that are not overt war zones.

Characters talk about their experience in a war zone when their parents were killed.

Not just the way they drunkenly stagger through the war zones, or the way they constantly have their cameras out, ready for The Big Picture to need to be taken at any moment, or even the way they use their cameras as their only defense against the death squads that would probably enjoy killing them (Cassady and Boyle routinely get out of trouble by offering to photograph the petty fascists threatening their lives, offering to make them famous in exchange for not getting murdered).

you cant just drive around mindlessly through a war zone in this game you will get killed especially in the 2nd half of the game the a.i will just blow you up with grenade launchers the second they see you.

Covering the news in the US certainly won't get you killed or arrested as quickly as it will in Mexico covering narco - trafficking, in Syria, Bahrain, or Yemen, in outright war zones.

I'm sorry, but honestly, the bit that, and I quote «makes it sound like pedestrians are in a war zone where they might be killed at any second:» is pretty much the list, verbatim, that my parents drilled into me when I was growing up on basic safety practices... «the whole tone of this is that it's dangerous out there».