[Code of Federal Regulations]

[Title 32, Volume 1]

[Revised as of July 1, 2006]

From the U.S. Government Printing Office via GPO Access

[CITE: 32CFR47.3]



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                       TITLE 32--NATIONAL DEFENSE

 

              CHAPTER I--OFFICE OF THE SECRETARY OF DEFENSE

 

PART 47_ACTIVE DUTY SERVICE FOR CIVILIAN OR CONTRACTUAL GROUPS--Table of 

Contents

 

Sec.  47.3  Definitions.



    Armed conflict. A prolonged period of sustained combat involving 

members of the U.S. Armed Forces against a foreign belligerent. The term 

connotes more than a military engagement of limited duration or for 

limited objectives, and involves a significant use of military and 

civilian forces.

    (a) Examples of armed conflict are World Wars I and II, and the 

Korean and Vietnam Conflicts.

    (b) Examples of military actions that are not armed conflicts are as 

follows:

    (1) The incursion into Lebanon in 1958, and the peacekeeping force 

there in 1983 and 1984.

    (2) The incursions into the Dominican Republic in 1965 and into 

Libya in 1986.

    (3) The intervention into Grenada in 1983.

    Civilian or contractual group. An organization similarly situated to 

the Women's Air Forces Service Pilots (a group of Federal civilian 

employees attached to the U.S. Army Air Force in World War II). Those 

organization members rendered service to the U.S. Armed Forces during a 

period of armed conflict in a capacity that was then considered civilian 

employment with the Armed Forces, or the result of a contract with the 

U.S. Government, to provide direct support to the Armed Forces.

    Recognized group. A group whose service the Secretary of the Air 

Force administratively has determined to have been ``active duty for the 

purposes of all laws administered by the Department of Veterans 

Affairs''; i.e., VA benefits under 38 U.S.C. 101.

    Similarly situated. A civilian or contractual group is similarly 

situated to the Women's Air Forces Service Pilots when it existed as an 

identifiable group at the time the service was being rendered to the 

U.S. Armed Forces during a period of armed conflict. Persons who 

individually provided support through civilian employment or contract, 

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who were not members of an identifiable group at the time the services 

were rendered, are not ``similarly situated'' to the Women's Air Forces 

Service Pilots of World War II.