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This is a question best left to the bar at the local VFW or American Legion. Is an "eye ball to eye ball" confrontation required? Perhaps you need a knife fight in the dark of night. Some are convinced that the mandatory minimum is to pull the trigger on an enemy you can see. That would rule out many of the most importand weapons of any war like mortars, artillery, naval gunfire or clicking off a claymore in the middle of the night when you hear something while on guard duty. Are fighter pilots the only ones involved in aerial combat? What about the people loading and firing the weapons aboard a "Spooky" or "Spectre" who are also firing blind.

Nope, moments of personal mortal combat will always exist in warfare, but the definition of warfare and combat must now include all supporting arms, those who support the supporting arms by providing the beans, bullets and bandaids that win the fight, that win the battle and that win the wars. Not only the transport pilot and the loadmaster, not just the PT Boat or the Destroyer but the Fleet Oiler are at war and are in active combat and deserve the full honors to which they are entitled. Bless them all.

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