Seventh US service member killed in war with Iran identified
3mon 10d ago by lemmy.world/u/MicroWave in news from www.theguardian.com
Sgt Benjamin N Pennington, 26, died from injuries sustained during Iranian strike on airbase in Saudi Arabia
The Pentagon has identified the seventh US service member killed in the war with Iran as 26-year-old army Sgt Benjamin N Pennington, who is a resident of Glendale, Kentucky.
In a statement on Monday the department said Pennington died on Sunday from injuries sustained during an Iranian strike on the Prince Sultan airbase in Saudi Arabia on 1 March. The incident is under investigation, the statement said.
Pennington was assigned to first space battalion, first space brigade, Fort Carson, Colorado, the Pentagon said. The brigade is part of the army space and missile defense command.
Pennington was assigned to first space battalion
So why was he on earth?
Technically isn’t anymore
I need to stop reading this comment because every time I do, I give the same little guffaw then feel guilty for laughing then start to contemplate whether I should but then I read it again and the cycle repeats.
7th that's been admitted to.
The real casualty count is being heavily censored.
Allied NATO countries are reporting US soldiers arriving to their hospitals end masse.
Well they don't usually take the dead ones to a hospital.
I would like to learn more, do you have some links? Or where are you hearing about these?
source?
someone suggests they're likely going to suppress the bad news
You: runs in demanding a source to a postulation
Edit: wow, a lot of people cannot read for shit.
People can type anything they want into these little boxes that then get posted for everyone to see. Asking for a source to backup your statements is always acceptable.
Edit: Yes. There's nothing wrong with requesting a source for information. Lol
COVID was when we saw in real time that America is willing to manipulate the numbers. It's a really depressing reality and incredibly disrespectful to the families of the troops who died.
Since it's mostly a bombing campaign I don't see how it would be much higher. It's not that much different than the casualties seen during the gulf war. Only 219 US deaths from that entire conflict
This soldier died in Saudi Arabia. Unlike the gulf war, Iran can strike back with greater accuracy than they were given credit for. This is nothing like the gulf war in terms of the capabilities of the opponent. The USA will also not be able to win this war with air strikes alone, boots on the ground will be needed.
If you stop testing for it, the cases go way down
Oh no! Not 7?!
I can’t believe they’re gonna report on each US soldier individually in contrast to the utterly deafening silence on the mountains upon mountains of dead people they leave behind for their precious pedoprez.
If I travelled back in time to 26 years ago to tell this guy's parents that their son will die to be a distraction because an orange reality TV star, bankruptcy champion, 34 felony holding, confirmed rapist and racist, multi crime committing, old aged, narcissistic pathological liar, mushy brained dementia riddled imbecile was trying to 'flood the zone with shit' just to protect itself from the decades of child rapes -and most probably even more evil shit- then do you think they'd believe me?
The thing is, I know it happened and yet even I can't believe it.
He got in the box for Israel
And Trump
Per Trump: "Loser"
7 terrorists dead
Pennington was assigned to first space battalion, first space brigade, Fort Carson, Colorado, the Pentagon said. The brigade is part of the army space and missile defense command.
He's not earning any sympathy if he was part of Trump's old "Weaponize Space" bullshit.
EDIT: Wrong department, my bad
You're thinking of Space Force. A Totally legit branch of the military.
Not to be confused with the Netflix Series of the same name starring Steve Carrell and John Malkovich, which for future reference, we'll just call "the good one", though that really isn't saying much.
Shame the TV show wasn't any good. Such an incredible lineup that was wasted on trying to create "the office" in space.
It would have been hilarious to search for Space Force and have the show be the first thing you find.
Martyrs for Epstein
Baby killer. No tears.
Get out of my head!
It feels cold to say, but 7 dead soldiers just isn't much. 21 soldiers die per year in training accidents 17-22 veterans commit suicide every day
That 7 dead number is nothing. However, the fact that we are being led by a buncg of sex trafficing rapists is disturbing beyond belief.
True. They shouldn't be in the national news so prominently.. But he also shouldn't be using them as pawns in his game of checkers.
Isn’t it around 22% of all vets that end up committing suicide?
Treat a ton of soldiers as disposable, talk down to them, make a bunch of their new friends die over pointless nonsense, and then when they retire just forget they exist -> super stable, totally normal and healthy system
The seventh sacrifice on the Epstein Altar.
Benjamin N Pennington
Died for a child rapist, murderer, eater.
Time to paint more amazon delivery vans black.
Either these soldiers think they are doing something heroic or they feel forced to do this, either way I pity them
He could have stay home
Credulous Homicidal Uniformed Military Person #7
This pisses me off so much. Seeing someone the same age as you dying in this stupid shit is so aggravating.
Imagine dying/killing for trump and jesus.
Netanyahu doesn't even believe in jesus, he died for trump and entanyahu
They died for the bloody merican empire
These motherfuckers killed 170 school girls. Rot in hell.
It’s a war on Iran, why do they say with…
and these service members are just following illegal orders, huh?
kind of hard to feel any sympathy for them. it's been a few years now. they've probably had time to get out, and chose not to.
Rot in piss, rapist.
7....????
.....or 700??
I'm curious how long they can hide the numbers. Do soldiers call their loved ones every day? Or write them once a week?
Krasnov already asked his Moscow handlers how to hide the casualty figures.
Haahaa