Link: DCAS

Those fallen Servicemembers are casualties of Operation AIPAC FURY.

They were not in CONUS, not in Germany, Japan, or South Korea.

If these four Soldier were receiving combat pay (tax-exempt status) they are in the warzone and are casualties, whether their HUMMV overturned in an accident in Kuwait, were struck by small arms fire in northern Iraq, their ship hit a mine in the Hormuz Strait, or a drone caught them in Qatar.

By their logic, a Soldier wounded during a cease-fire in the combat zone doesn't merit a Purple Heart.

A cease-fire is meaningless, ask the Ukranians who endured Russian attacks during so-called cease-fires over several Christmases.

This is pure nonsense from the Trumpf junta and an attempt to keep the casualty count low.