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.
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SatansMaggotyCumFart@piefed.world · 55 pts · 162d
So why was he on earth?
Tm12@lemmy.ca · 58 pts · 162d
Technically isn’t anymore
FisherOfSaints@lemmy.world · 10 pts · 161d
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.
HazardousBanjo@lemmy.world · 39 pts · 161d
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.
CannonFodder@lemmy.world · 12 pts · 161d
Well they don't usually take the dead ones to a hospital.
rf_@lemmy.world · 10 pts · 161d
I would like to learn more, do you have some links? Or where are you hearing about these?
brachiosaurus@mander.xyz · 8 pts · 161d
source?
Bronzebeard@lemmy.zip · -5 pts · 161d
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.
athatet@lemmy.zip · 5 pts · 161d
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.
MonkeMischief@lemmy.today · 1 pts · 160d
Bronzebeard@lemmy.zip · 1 pts · 160d
MonkeMischief@lemmy.today · 0 pts · 160d
Edit: Yes. There's nothing wrong with requesting a source for information. Lol
arrow74@lemmy.zip · 5 pts · 161d
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
Lucius_Sweet@lemmy.world · 0 pts · 161d
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.
VitoRobles@lemmy.today · 5 pts · 161d
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.
Bronzebeard@lemmy.zip · 1 pts · 161d
Jaberw0cky@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 161d
FreddiesLantern@leminal.space · 23 pts · 161d
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.
D_C@sh.itjust.works · 19 pts · 161d
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.
Mrkawfee@lemmy.world · 16 pts · 161d
He got in the box for Israel
GameOverFlow@lemmy.zip · 9 pts · 161d
And Trump
ThePantser@sh.itjust.works · 15 pts · 162d
Per Trump: "Loser"
FiniteBanjo@feddit.online · 11 pts · 162d
He's not earning any sympathy if he was part of Trump's old "Weaponize Space" bullshit.
EDIT: Wrong department, my bad
JasonDJ@lemmy.zip · 6 pts · 161d
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.
VitoRobles@lemmy.today · 2 pts · 161d
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.
mrdown@lemmy.world · 11 pts · 161d
7 terrorists dead
0_o7@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 9 pts · 161d
Martyrs for Epstein
hammertime@lemmy.org · 8 pts · 162d
Baby killer. No tears.
modus@lemmy.world · 8 pts · 161d
Wilco@lemmy.zip · 2 pts · 160d
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.
modus@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 160d
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.
EmpathicVagrant@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 159d
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
Treczoks@lemmy.world · 7 pts · 161d
The seventh sacrifice on the Epstein Altar.
athatet@lemmy.zip · 7 pts · 161d
Benjamin N Pennington
Died for a child rapist, murderer, eater.
krzschlss@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 161d
Time to paint more amazon delivery vans black.
BackgrndNoize@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 160d
Either these soldiers think they are doing something heroic or they feel forced to do this, either way I pity them
brachiosaurus@mander.xyz · 5 pts · 161d
He could have stay home
PalmTreeIsBestTree@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 161d
This pisses me off so much. Seeing someone the same age as you dying in this stupid shit is so aggravating.
Snailpick42@lemmus.org · 4 pts · 161d
Imagine dying/killing for trump and jesus.
Bluescluestoothpaste@sh.itjust.works · 1 pts · 161d
Netanyahu doesn't even believe in jesus, he died for trump and entanyahu
mrdown@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 161d
They died for the bloody merican empire
ohulancutash@feddit.uk · 4 pts · 162d
Credulous Homicidal Uniformed Military Person #7
user81720483@feddit.org · 3 pts · 160d
These motherfuckers killed 170 school girls. Rot in hell.
LSNLDN@slrpnk.net · 3 pts · 161d
It’s a war on Iran, why do they say with…
mrgoosmoos@lemmy.ca · 2 pts · 160d
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.
zebidiah@lemmy.ca · 1 pts · 161d
7....????
.....or 700??
CADmonkey@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 161d
I'm curious how long they can hide the numbers. Do soldiers call their loved ones every day? Or write them once a week?
Gammelfisch@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 160d
Krasnov already asked his Moscow handlers how to hide the casualty figures.
ShinkanTrain@lemmy.ml · 1 pts · 162d
Rot in piss, rapist.
cmbabul@lemmy.world · 0 pts · 162d
Reiterate9120@lemmy.org · 0 pts · 162d
Haahaa