The Rules of Engagement and the Law of Armed Combat do not permit combatants to shoot at people who are surrendering or who no longer pose a threat because of their injuries.
And an afternoon of small-arms combat was ahead.
Often photographed with a mustache and wearing a black beret and combat fatigues, he justified the rebels' armed combat in stark terms.
Death squads made up of heavily armed combat troops travelled throughout northern Chile, rounding up villagers and leaving behind a trail of corpses.
At the General Synod's meeting in the autumn, he spoke in favour of a motion that committed the church to the defence of threatened Christian enclaves, and in his own speech made explicit that this might involve armed combat.
troops, combat arms, combat support (CS), or combat service support (CSS) units.
Operation Sentinel has put heavily armed combat troops in public view as they patrol key sites in military fatigues, at an annual cost running into hundreds of millions of euros.
There were former soldiers, like Fabio Humberto Cely, who lost an arm in combat, and the Colombian actor, Rodrigo Obregón.
Mr. Inouye, who lost his right arm in combat during World War II, also persuaded the United States military to leave its bases in Hawaii open, even though the state is no longer as vital for strategic defense purposes.
A hero of World War II who lost his right arm in combat in Europe, Mr. Inouye, a Democrat, served two terms in the House of Representatives early in his career and was first elected to the Senate in 1962.
He joined the infantry and lost an arm in combat in Italy, and he recalls an aid-station amputation without anesthesia that was so painful "that dying didn't seem like such an awful idea".
