For most the difference between 'combat duty' and 'non combat duty' is fairly easy to discern. For some it seems a difficult concept.
One of these things is not like the other
BS! If it's in a combat zone, it's combat duty.
Qatar is not a combat zone. I was in a combat zone (Afghanistan), but I've never heard of the term "combat duty". If you're a grunt, or in direct support of the grunts, you may or may not find yourself in combat, but it's never described as combat duty. If you spend your entire tour on base you might be called a REMF, but you're not on combat duty just because you're in the rear with the gear in a combat zone.
All that aside, this guy is a POS for trying to play up his service into something it never was. He deserves to lose if he isn't removed by the party or doesn't take himself out of the running.
For most the difference between 'combat duty' and 'non combat duty' is fairly easy to discern. For some it seems a difficult concept.
One of these things is not like the other
J.R. was stationed in Qatar but J.R.’s team flew into Afghanistan from Qatar. He served IN Afghanistan during the war. For you and @AP to twist that into a hit piece like he didn’t is nuts. I’d like to know if you served in the Afghanistan war wearing a uniform.
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The Air Force loosened the definition of Combat Duty. They put a number on the sorties flown into certain areas, like Qatar, (which is called Combat Support), and said x number of combat support sorties equals combat time. It was ridiculous. You had guys flying into Germany, which was a staging area for some aircraft, and they could claim combat time after a number of sorties. They could log combat support by flying into and around Germany, which also was ridiculous. The yahoos in charge were all about looking like a mexican general with all their pretty medals. When they started giving out Bronze Stars to admin, I gave up.