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I would think that in the military during a time of conflict, or maybe that plus deployed to an area of conflict or in support of the conflict. My uncle (had dinner with him tonight, he's officiating our wedding tomorrow) was a marine seabee in Vietnam. My father was in the Navy in Vietnam, but didn't get any close than Hawaii. He was a Crypto Tech, so he wasn't really in a front line kind of role.