I will share a story with you how my ,now, X husband was spared during TWO wars as a combat medic in the frontline.
The first war, ( which nobody says was a war, was the Panama Invasion. They told us one thing, but when he returned home, he told me how their jumpzone was way off and he had to fight his way to the airport, which was more than 2 miles away. He said he landed on top of a building and thinks he killed someone that was shooting at him, but he got away and made it to the airport, with many of the troops. They took over airport easily. I want to say he was gone maybe a month, when he got injured, but not on the battlefield. He busted his collar bone and was sent back to US.

second time being sent to Gulf War. hey landed them into Iraq, but before they started fighting and chemical attacks from Iraq, he got injured playing football and was sent to Germany to hospital and then sent home months later.

God will intervene, pray fervently for him, but it will be awhil