{"id":74021,"date":"2017-08-15T09:00:25","date_gmt":"2017-08-15T13:00:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=74021"},"modified":"2017-08-15T08:33:10","modified_gmt":"2017-08-15T12:33:10","slug":"two-paratroopers-killed-in-artillery-accident","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=74021","title":{"rendered":"Two paratroopers killed in artillery accident"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><center><a href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?attachment_id=74022\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-74022\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/image-300x190.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"190\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-74022\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/image-300x190.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/image-768x487.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/image-500x317.jpg 500w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/image.jpg 900w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/center><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.stripes.com\/news\/two-us-soldiers-killed-in-artillery-mishap-in-iraq-identified-1.482836#.WZLn9emQyUk\">Stars &#038; Stripes<\/a> identified the two paratroopers killed in Iraq this past weekend as Sergeant Allen L. Stigler Jr., 22, and Sergeant Roshain E. Brooks, 30. S&#038;S says that the soldiers were killed in a premature detonation of an artillery round while they were trying to destroy an ISIS emplacement;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p> The artillery crew was targeting an ISIS mortar position when the mishap occurred, Manning said. The unit was firing an M777 howitzer, a towed 155 mm artillery piece, according to another defense official who spoke on the condition of anonymity.<\/p>\n<p>Despite ISIS\u2019 claims Sunday that it killed the soldiers with rocket fire, Manning said \u201cthere is no indication at all that ISIS had anything to do with\u201d the soldiers\u2019 deaths. He said the incident was under investigation.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The five others injured in the accident are expected to survive.<\/p>\n<p>Sergeant Stigler joined the Army in 2013 from Arlington, Texas and Sergeant Brooks, from Brooklyn, New York began his career in 2012.  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Stars &#038; Stripes identified the two paratroopers killed in Iraq this past weekend as Sergeant Allen &hellip; <a title=\"Two paratroopers killed in artillery accident\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=74021\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Two paratroopers killed in artillery accident<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":74022,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[232],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-74021","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\/74021","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=74021"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74021\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/74022"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=74021"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=74021"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=74021"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}