A checked claim

As of today, there is not one member of the United States military who is in active duty in a combat zone, in any war zone around the world, [for the] first time this century.

Kamala Harris · The September 10, 2024 presidential debate · September 10, 2024 · Race: President of the United States

Correct this page · hello@crackedbuckeye.com

The checks

Each in the checker's own words. This site does not restate another organization's finding in its own voice.

Mostly False

PolitiFact, September 11, 2024 · read the check

Our check against the record

Does not match the record

Checked against Defense Manpower Data Center, military personnel by duty country as of September 30, 2024: 3,405 active-duty members assigned in Bahrain, 387 in Kuwait, 260 in Saudi Arabia and 213 in Qatar, every one a country Internal Revenue Service Publication 3 lists as part of the Arabian Peninsula combat zone designated by Executive Order 12744; read as the federal combat-zone designation, the term she used; the counts are assigned personnel, which understate deployed troops.

The records: Military and Civilian Personnel by Service/Agency by State/Country, as of September 30, 2024 (file 136978, milRegionCountry) · Publication 3, Armed Forces' Tax Guide: combat zones

Context

The bracketed words are the research archive's insertion in the quotation it records.

Topics: Defense.

Other claims by Kamala Harris

Every claim filed under Kamala Harris

Sources

  1. Why Harris' debate remarks about U.S. military in combat zones is misleading · PolitiFact · 2024-09-11 · accessed 2026-09-18
  2. Military and Civilian Personnel by Service/Agency by State/Country, as of September 30, 2024 (file 136978, milRegionCountry) · Defense Manpower Data Center · 2024-09-30 · accessed 2026-10-16
  3. Publication 3, Armed Forces' Tax Guide: combat zones · Internal Revenue Service · accessed 2026-10-15

Cite and data

Cite this page as:

Cracked Buckeye, "Kamala Harris: "As of today, there is not one member of the United States military who is in active duty in..."", https://crackedbuckeye.com/claims/2024-09-10-kamala-harris-no-troops-in-combat-zones/, built 2026-11-03, accessed [date].

How to cite · Report a correction · Built 2026-11-03