{"id":125349,"date":"2022-04-29T10:50:05","date_gmt":"2022-04-29T14:50:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=125349"},"modified":"2022-04-29T10:53:15","modified_gmt":"2022-04-29T14:53:15","slug":"marine-corps-veteran-killed-in-afghanistan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=125349","title":{"rendered":"Marine Corps Veteran Killed in Ukraine"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Several news outlets are reporting that Marine veteran Willy Joseph Cancel has been killed fighting for Ukraine, making him the first American to die fighting in that war.<\/p>\n

Cancel was 22 years old and leaves behind a wife and 7-month-old daughter.\u00a0 Cancel was over in Ukraine as part of a contracting company.\u00a0 He had just gotten out of the Marine Corps in November of 2021.<\/p>\n

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From CNN:<\/p>\n

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American killed fighting alongside Ukrainian forces in Ukraine<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

Cancel, a former US Marine, according to his mother, signed up to work for the private military contracting company on top of his full-time job as a corrections officer in Tennessee shortly before the war in Ukraine broke out at the end of February, Cabrera said. When the war began, the company, according to Cabrera, was searching for contractors to fight in Ukraine and Cancel agreed to go, Cabrera said.<\/p>\n

“He wanted to go over because he believed in what Ukraine was fighting for, and he wanted to be a part of it to contain it there so it didn’t come here, and that maybe our American soldiers wouldn’t have to be involved in it,” Cabrera told CNN in a phone interview.<\/p>\n

Cancel flew to Poland on March 12 and crossed into Ukraine sometime over March 12 and 13, Cabrera said.<\/p>\n

Cancel was formerly a US Marine, according to his mother, Rebecca Cabrera.<\/p>\n

The group of men Cancel was fighting alongside were from “all different countries,” Cabrera said.<\/p>\n

Cabrera was told by those who notified her of her son’s death that his body had not been found.<\/p>\n

“They haven’t found his body,” she said. “They are trying, the men that were with him, but it was either grab his body or get killed, but we would love for him to come back to us.”<\/p>\n

A State Department official said they are “aware of these reports and are closely monitoring the situation.”<\/p>\n

“Due to privacy considerations, we have no further comment,” the official added. “We once again reiterate US citizens should not travel to Ukraine due to the active armed conflict and the singling out of US citizens in Ukraine by Russian government security officials, and that US citizens in Ukraine should depart immediately if it is safe to do so, using any commercial or other privately available ground transportation options.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n

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