Outraged family members of US troops hurt in the line of duty slammed Kamala Harris’ brazen claim that no Americans are serving in war zones — a statement which flies in the face of her own administration’s official list of active combat zones.
As many as 50,000 US service members currently patrolling countries and oceans across the Middle East and Africa are receiving either “hostile fire” or “imminent danger pay,” monthly payments of up to $225 for troops deployed in areas where they could easily be subjected to — or do come under — enemy attack, retired Army Col. and military analyst Jonathan Sweet told The Post.
Yet during Tuesday’s ABC debate with Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump, the vice president to make it seem as if the Harris-Biden administration has heralded in a period of peace not seen in decades — and that all American military members are safe.
“As of today there is not one member of the United States military who is in active duty in a combat zone, in any war zone around the world, for the first time this century,” she insisted before a TV audience of 67 million.
Earlier in the debate, Trump warned that the United States is “playing with World War III” by allowing Russia’s invasion of Ukraine to continue.
He has long argued that during his presidency he kept international rivals at bay, and that Russia would not have dared to invade Ukraine, nor Hamas assault civilians in Israel, on his watch.