Combatant status

Actually the policy of President Roosevelt was to avert rather than to precipitate gas warfare. This policy was unmistakably announced in his veto message of 1937. Despite Presidential intent some veering in attitude toward gas warfare is discernible in the years immediately preceding 1939. This trend coincided with the steady deterioration of international conciliation as a means of avoiding war which followed the rise of Mussolini and Hitler to power. It was reflected within the War Department as early as 1930, when a noticeable shift in emphasis from strictly defensive training in gas warfare took place. The combatant status of the Chemical Warfare Service was reaffirmed in 1935 when Congress specified that the CWS,... 

Moreover, an aim which has not yet been fully realised in combating unemployment more efficiently has been to offer jobseekers a guichet unique (single contact point). The development of this system in previous years, along with the rules applicable since 2006, has had the result that unemployment insurance facilities do not only act on behalf of and in accordance with the service public, but have more or less tended to become an integral part of it, despite the preservation of their legal status.34... 

Boyle CA, Decoufle P, Delaney RJ, et al Postservice Mortality Among Vietnam Veterans. Atlanta, GA, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, 1987 Decoufle P, Holmgreen P, Boyle CA, et al Self-reported health status of Vietnam veterans in relation to perceived exposure to herbicides and combat. Am J Epidemiol 135 312-323, 1992... 

A. Criteria. The capability for medical evacuation, the intensity of the battle, tactical need, and the patient will determine if he will be evacuated or will remain engaged. A visual function assessment, as well as other findings such as hemorrhage, will be used to determine the soldiers duty status. The combat lifesaver and combat medic must consider the soldier s need for evaluation by a physician/PA (to include an ophtholomoscopic examination). From this information, one can determine the need for evacuation of the patient. Ground ambulance is the preferred method of evacuation the lack of urgency for treatment does not justify aeromedical evacuation. See FM 8-10-6 for additional information on evacuation. 

There was an equal amount of well-ordered effort going on inside the life-support capsules, as crews from five service and astroengineering companies laboured to bring the starship up to its full combat capable status. A status whose performance figures would surprise a lot of conventional warship captains. A status she hadn t truly enjoyed for decades. Her standard internal fittings were being stripped out, replaced by their military-grade equivalents. 

I doubt my authority runs to that..." He broke off as the office management computer datavised a change in Guyana s status. The operations centre had just issued a full combat alert. 

Aldrich G (1982) Guerrilla combatants and prisoner of war status. Am Univ Law Rev 31 871-882... 

Draper G (1971) The status of combatants and the question of guerrilla warfare. Br Yearb Int... 

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