And Europe's diplomats are not the only ones seeing action.
Helios is several years away from seeing action.
He then served in the Army, seeing action in the Philippines.
We would be seeing action, our platoon sergeants told us, most likely on the front lines.
Seeing action was about as abstract a thought as nuclear war.
His younger brother, Will, was sitting in the next locker, after not seeing action against Providence.
Harold served in the Army during World War II, seeing action in France as a mortar gunner.
During World War II he served with the U.S. Navy for three years, seeing action in the South Pacific on the U.S.S.
After seeing action during World War II, Penn remained in Europe as a civilian to manage an entertainment unit known as the Soldiers Show Company.
Mr Hagel, a former Republican senator from Nebraska, came by his own war-wariness honourably, seeing action in Vietnam as a sergeant.
Dolph Jr. graduated from the University of Texas in 1943, then served two years in the Army, seeing action in the Burma-India theater.
