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2-5 seem kind of redundant, with proper lawyers I’m sure they could have cooked up some enemies in there, even turned it into a great story of courage against all odds on a History Channel docu-drama but our imagination is waning these days
- any action against an enemy of the United States; your standard 'warfighting' scenario
- any action with an opposing armed force of a foreign country in which the Armed Forces of the United States are or have been engaged; undeclared wars / conventional conflicts, surprise attacks (Libya, WWII pre-Pearl Harbour etc, The Cold War).
- while serving with friendly foreign forces engaged in an armed conflict against an opposing armed force in which the United States is not a belligerent party; training teams / attachments to friendly forces (Vietnam, Syria/Iraq post 2016)
- as a result of an act of any such enemy or opposing armed forces; non-direct engagement injuries, sabotage, minefields caused by an national armed force (NVA Regular Army)
- as a result of an act of any hostile foreign force the above, but by a non-national armed force. The Taliban/Daesh/AQI, VC for example
As for 'cooking up an enemy' in the case of the Fitzgerald, my history is a little hazy but I'm sure it's been a while since the Philippines was an enemy of the United States, and I don't think even Tolstoy would be able to craft a fiction wide enough to encompass a scenario of a civilian registered container ship leeerroooyyy jeeennkinnsss itself into the side of a guided missile destroyer.
The 'story against all odds' is pretty easy though. They don't make warships like they used to, and the crew of both ships (especially the McCain, which had a rather large hole below the waterline) had to work pretty damn hard to rescue crew trapped below decks and stop the ship from sinking.
Say what you like about the US Navy, but one thing they do take very seriously is damage control and all ranks and posts are trained up to a high standard from basic training onwards.