Despite GF pilot contracts listing extra war zone life cover would be purchased by GF to underwrite a pilots own accident and/or life insurance
policies.... in the first Gulf War... this did not occur.
Pilots that requested it were immediately places on leave (with no leave ticket out of Bahrain available)
Their request for this coverage was mentioned to them later as their contract renewal date approached...one pilot I knew faced with this uncertainty...simply told Gf to forget it and joined SIA on a B747 where he remained until retirement.