- Reaction score
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- Points
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From Iterator -g. Wounds or injuries inflicted by our own, allied or coalition forces' projectiles (or parts of them) when these have been fired at real or perceived hostile forces;
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This is new to the regulations since I was in, they changed it I guess in 03, before the regulations said only direct contact with the EN, Friendly fire was not in and the odd randun shot directed at a EN but hits you by accident ie UN ops observer missions you don't qualify. This issue got me in a heated debate a year ago as the regs had changed and I was arguing from the old regs of the late 90s. I am a little on the fence about the issue, I don't want to make the WIA stripe to be like the purple heart in the US.
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This is new to the regulations since I was in, they changed it I guess in 03, before the regulations said only direct contact with the EN, Friendly fire was not in and the odd randun shot directed at a EN but hits you by accident ie UN ops observer missions you don't qualify. This issue got me in a heated debate a year ago as the regs had changed and I was arguing from the old regs of the late 90s. I am a little on the fence about the issue, I don't want to make the WIA stripe to be like the purple heart in the US.