{"id":68321,"date":"2016-10-06T09:17:39","date_gmt":"2016-10-06T13:17:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=68321"},"modified":"2016-10-06T09:19:54","modified_gmt":"2016-10-06T13:19:54","slug":"ssg-adam-thomas-kia-in-afghanistan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=68321","title":{"rendered":"SSG Adam Thomas KIA in Afghanistan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><center><a href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?attachment_id=68322\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-68322\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/adam-thomas-258x300.jpg\" alt=\"adam-thomas-258x300\" width=\"258\" height=\"300\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-68322\" \/><\/a><\/center><\/p>\n<p>The other day we reported the death of a US service member during operations against ISIS in eastern Afghanistan\u2019s Nangarhar province in the Achin district near the Pakistan border. Today he&#8217;s been identified as Staff Sergeant Adam Thomas of Takoma Park, Maryland assaigned to the 10th Special Forces Group. From the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.denverpost.com\/2016\/10\/05\/fort-carson-soldier-killed-afghanistan-ied-blast\/\">Denver Post<\/a>;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Thomas, an eight-year member of the Army, was supporting Operation Freedom\u2019s Sentinel.<\/p>\n<p>Thomas entered the Army in April 2008, according to Fort Carson, and had deployed to Iraq in 2008 and to Afghanistan for two tours \u2014 one in 2011 and another in June.<\/p>\n<p>Thomas was the recipient of a Bronze Star, Purple Heart, multiple Army Commendation medals and the National Defense Service Medal, among other accolades.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>He was killed by an IED in operations against ISIS. ISIS has taken credit for his death.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The other day we reported the death of a US service member during operations against ISIS &hellip; <a title=\"SSG Adam Thomas KIA in Afghanistan\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=68321\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">SSG Adam Thomas KIA in Afghanistan<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":68322,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-68321","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-terror-war"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68321","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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=68321"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68321\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/68322"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=68321"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=68321"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=68321"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}