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What'a the closest you have been to an active battlefront in a war? (Plane flights don't count unless you were in an aircraft performing some war-related task) (h/t anon)

<10 km
10.1%
10-100km
5.9%
100-1000km
15.3%
>1000km
68.8%

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1:36 AM · Nov 30, 2022

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Do gang wars here or insurgencies in 3rd world countries count?

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In my Seventies youth, I was an enthusiastic viewer of the various Battles Of The Network Stars. Kids today don’t know how it was back then, man. Bert Convy was the Audie Murphy of his generation.

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en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1989_Phil I was living in a village next to Camp Aguinaldo while it was being strafed. A neighbor's house was hit and a St Bernard puppy was orphaned and was adopted by our other neighbor. It was the biggest dog I have ever seen.

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1989 Philippine coup d'état attempt - Wikipedia

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Damn, I’ve been to Chicago!

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Years ago heard heavy machine gun fire from Mt BenTal when the Syrian Civil war was hot in the vicinity. It was strange, as it’s a popular tourist spot, and while I was talking to the UN observers they heard that artillery had flown over a nearby UN base.

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The answer is either less than 100 or less than 10, depending on how much firepower has to be thrown around and how many countries have to be involved before it counts as a war

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Does "The War on Drugs" count?

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Depends if The Troubles count as a war for this.

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Ahem.. Take 2.) I dunno how active you expect but I lived in LA in 1992/93/94 and we had both the riots and the Mexican President being assassinated in Tijuana so it wsa a wild time as a kid.

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Maybe not exactly a battlefront, but this land down there below the clouds was a contested area in the Tigray War in Ethiopia when I was visiting. This was taken on the Semien mountains in July.

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