{"id":71773,"date":"2017-04-29T09:36:10","date_gmt":"2017-04-29T13:36:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=71773"},"modified":"2017-04-29T09:43:23","modified_gmt":"2017-04-29T13:43:23","slug":"friendly-fire-isnt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=71773","title":{"rendered":"Friendly fire isn&#8217;t"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><center><a href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?attachment_id=71774\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-71774\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/Rangers-300x169.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"169\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-71774\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/Rangers-300x169.png 300w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/Rangers-768x433.png 768w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/Rangers-500x282.png 500w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/Rangers.png 780w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/center><\/p>\n<p>The other day we mentioned that two US servicemembers were killed during operations in Afghanistan, <a href=\"http:\/\/abcnews.go.com\/International\/army-rangers-killed-friendly-fire-afghanistan\/story?id=47086092\">ABC News<\/a> reports that the pair of Rangers might have been killed in a friendly fire incident;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Sgt. Joshua P. Rodgers, 22, of Bloomington, Illinois and Sgt. Cameron H. Thomas, 23, of Kettering, Ohio, both of the Army&#8217;s elite [3rd Battalion] 75th Ranger Regiment, were killed in the raid Thursday. A third Ranger received a head wound and remained with his unit. <\/p>\n<p>Capt. Jeff Davis, a Pentagon spokesman, confirmed Friday that their families have been informed that their deaths may have been caused from friendly fire. <\/p>\n<p>According to Davis, the raid targeted a compound housing Abdul Hasib, the ISIS Emir in Afghanistan. It is suspected, though not confirmed, that the ISIS leader was among the 35 ISIS fighters killed in the raid. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>That&#8217;s the problem of being in the lead of an operation &#8211; both sides are shooting in your direction. They were involved in a joint operation with our Afghan allies, so it&#8217;s not beyond the realm of possibility that they were shot by folks who weren&#8217;t paying attention where they were sending lead.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The other day we mentioned that two US servicemembers were killed during operations in Afghanistan, ABC &hellip; <a title=\"Friendly fire isn&#8217;t\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=71773\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Friendly fire isn&#8217;t<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":71774,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[232],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-71773","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-army-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71773","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=71773"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71773\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/71774"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=71773"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=71773"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=71773"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}