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has gloss | eng: The Sole Survivor Policy describes a set of regulations in the US military that are designed to protect members of a family from the draft or combat duty if they have already lost family members in military service. This does not protect children without siblings or those who have already had an immediate family member killed in the line of duty. It furthermore does not apply strictly to the sole surviving son, but to all surviving sons. The need for the regulations first caught public attention after the five Sullivan brothers were all killed when the USS Juneau (CL-52) was sunk during World War II. Since then, each branch of the military has made its own policies with regard to separating immediate family members. A notable instance of the Sole Survivor Policy is the case of the Niland Brothers, where it was believed that all but one of them were killed in action. It was later discovered that the eldest brother, Technical Sergeant Edward Niland, of the US Army Air Forces, had been held in a POW camp in Burma. |
lexicalization | eng: Sole Survivor Policy |
instance of | c/United States military policies |
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has gloss | deu: Bei der Sole Survivor Policy (auf Deutsch in etwa: „Regelung für einzig Überlebende“ oder „Verfahren bei einzig Überlebenden“) handelt es sich um eine Reihe verschiedener Regelwerke der Streitkräfte der Vereinigten Staaten, die entwickelt wurden, um das Leben eines Militärangehörigen, der bereits Familienmitglieder bei Kampfhandlungen o. Ä. verloren hat und dadurch letzte(r) Überlebende(r) einer Familie ist, zu schützen, indem diese Person aus Gebieten, in denen Kampfhandlungen stattfinden, abgezogen wird. |
lexicalization | deu: Sole Survivor Policy |
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