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Operated within the air added a third-dimension to the battlefield and they were just learning how to do it. pilots were throwing bombs out of cockpit and carrying pistols and rifles in the cockpit or a secondary observer in the wok pit and they were trading rounds with other airplanes. i think on the one hand they were terrified because they were young and fresh. when they came to the front lines with a unit, they maybe had a maximum of 20 hours of flying time. they just weren't that experienced. i have a lot of respect for the young men who flew these really primitive elemental airplanes bac...

Combat. the army has responded to this proposed legislation, directing it to, you know, award the purple heart, and in this statement it reads, quote, u.s. military personnel are organized, trained and equipped to combat foreign, not domestic forces or threats to expand the purple heart award criteria to include domestic criminal acts or domestic terror acts would be a dramatic departure from the traditional purple heart award criteria. so, joe, we're talking about, you know, combat versus attacks on u.s. soil, et cetera, that is what's at issue here. is that your interpretation or is it an is...