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Definition of Combat pay
1. Noun. Extra pay for soldiers engaged in active combat.
Lexicographical Neighbors of Combat Pay
Literary usage of Combat pay
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Scenes from an Unfinished War: Low-Intensity Conflict in Korea, 1966-1969 by DIANE Publishing Company (1994)
"In Korea, as in the Dominican Republic intervention of 1965— 66, provisions
already existed to give combat pay—but only to American dead (one month, ..."
2. U.s. Army's Transition to the All-volunteer Force, 1868-1974 by Robert K. Griffith, John Wyndham (FRW) Mountcastle, Robert K. Griffith, Jr. (1997)
"Otis Pike of New York noted that a draftee serving in Vietnam got $65 a month "combat
pay" while a combat arms volunteer in the United States would receive ..."
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