{"id":110348,"date":"2021-02-09T06:17:51","date_gmt":"2021-02-09T11:17:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=110348"},"modified":"2021-02-09T06:19:31","modified_gmt":"2021-02-09T11:19:31","slug":"no-us-combat-deaths-in-afghanistan-for-past-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=110348","title":{"rendered":"No US Combat Deaths in Afghanistan for Past Year"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/US-Army-Casket.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-110349\" src=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/US-Army-Casket.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"406\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/US-Army-Casket.jpg 1244w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/US-Army-Casket-300x244.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/US-Army-Casket-768x624.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/US-Army-Casket-410x333.jpg 410w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The Stars &amp; Stripes reports that there have been no recorded US combat deaths in Afghanistan over the past year.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.stripes.com\/news\/middle-east\/us-goes-one-year-without-a-combat-death-in-afghanistan-as-taliban-warn-against-reneging-on-peace-deal-1.661464#.YCFkPReZJTo.twitter\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><strong>US goes one year without a combat death in Afghanistan as Taliban warn against reneging on peace deal<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p>KABUL, Afghanistan \u2014 No U.S. troops have died in combat in Afghanistan for a year as of Monday, but the Taliban have threatened to target them again if Washington opts to keep international forces in the country after a May withdrawal deadline.<\/p>\n<p>Army Sgts. 1st Class Javier Gutierrez and Antonio Rodriguez were the last Americans to die in battle in Afghanistan on Feb. 8, 2020. Two other service members \u2014 Army Staff Sgt. Ian McLaughlin and Army Pfc. Miguel Villalon \u2014 were killed in combat there in January last year.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/Gutierrez_Rodriguez.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-110350\" src=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/Gutierrez_Rodriguez.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"338\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/Gutierrez_Rodriguez.jpg 1346w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/Gutierrez_Rodriguez-300x203.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/Gutierrez_Rodriguez-768x519.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/Gutierrez_Rodriguez-493x333.jpg 493w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Hopefully, Gutierrez and Rodriquez will be the last.\u00a0 Something to hope for, anyway.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Stars &amp; Stripes reports that there have been no recorded US combat deaths in Afghanistan &hellip; <a title=\"No US Combat Deaths in Afghanistan for Past Year\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=110348\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">No US Combat Deaths in Afghanistan for Past Year<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":663,"featured_media":110349,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[301],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-110348","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-afghanistan"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/110348","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/663"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=110348"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/110348\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":110352,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/110348\/revisions\/110352"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/110349"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=110348"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=110348"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=110348"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}