{"id":55636,"date":"2014-10-05T08:02:22","date_gmt":"2014-10-05T12:02:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=55636"},"modified":"2014-10-05T08:02:22","modified_gmt":"2014-10-05T12:02:22","slug":"corporal-jordan-l-spears-first-casualty-of-war-against-isis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=55636","title":{"rendered":"Corporal Jordan L. Spears; first casualty of war against ISIS"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Marine corporal Jordan L. Spears was named as the first casualty of the war against ISIS\/ISIL\/Islamic State when the Department of Defense called off the search for him after he jumped out of an MV-22 Osprey when he thought like it would crash. From CNN<\/a>;<\/p>\n

Asked how Spears death will be classified, Pentagon spokesman Navy Rear Adm. John Kirby told reporters the question was still being decided.<\/p>\n

“Clearly, that squadron and that ship were in the Gulf, supporting Central Command operations. Some of those operations included operations in Iraq and Syria, at least tangentially, through at least some tangential way, support to those missions,” Kirby said, according to a transcript.<\/p>\n

“So there’s no question that — that this Marine’s death is related to the operations that are going on, in some form or fashion.”<\/p>\n

Even so, he said he did not know whether the Marine’s death would be formally classified as such. The branch of service typically determines how a service member’s death is classified.<\/p>\n

The military has not detailed the Osprey’s mission at the time of the incident, which remains under investigation.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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