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U.S. Navy personnel stationed in Baghdad, Iraq held a Memorial Day service Monday to honor the three U.S. Military troopers who had been killed in a drone assault in Jordan earlier this yr.
Mixed Joint Process Drive Operation Inherent Resolve offered the ceremonial wreath on the Memorial Day ceremony on the Union III base, in Baghdad’s Inexperienced Zone. These in attendance paid their respects to the fallen service members.
U.S. Military Maj. Gen. J.B. Vowell, Mixed Joint Process Drive – Operation Inherent Resolve Commanding Basic, writes the title of a fallen service member on the Memorial Day wall throughout a ceremony at Union III in Baghdad, Iraq, Could 27, 2024. (U.S. Military)
Workers Sgt. William Rivers, 46, Sgt. Kennedy Sanders, 24, and Sgt. Breonna Moffett, 23, had been killed Jan. 28 after a drone assault by an Iranian proxy group hit Tower 22, a small U.S. outpost in northeast Jordan, on the Iraq, Syria, Jordan tri-border, the place they had been stationed.
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L-R: Sgt. William Rivers, Spc. Breonna Moffett, and Spc. Kennedy Sanders. (Fox Information )
The troopers had been stationed at Tower 22 simply throughout the border from Syria to assist the mission to defeat ISIS.
At its peak, over 100,000 folks lived there, blocked by Jordan from getting into into the dominion at a time when considerations about infiltration by the extremist group had been rampant. These considerations grew out of a 2016 automobile bomb assault there, that killed seven Jordanian border guards.
Operation Inherent Resolve troopers stand in formation and salute the US flag throughout a Memorial Day ceremony at Union III in Baghdad, Iraq, Could 27, 2024. (U.S. Military)
The camp has dwindled within the time since to some 7,500 folks due to a scarcity of provides, per United Nations estimates.
The Memorial Day Wall at Union III in Baghdad, Iraq, Could 27, 2024. (U.S. Military)
The bottom started as a Jordanian border statement outpost, then noticed an elevated U.S. presence after American forces entered Syria in late 2015. The small set up consists of U.S. engineering, aviation, logistics and safety troops with about 350 U.S. Military and Air Drive personnel deployed there.
A U.S Military soldier assigned to 1st Battalion, 181st Infantry Regiment, forty fourth Infantry Brigade Fight Workforce, New Jersey Nationwide Guard, performs Wonderful Grace on bagpipes throughout the Memorial Day ceremony at Union III in Baghdad, Iraq, Could 27, 2024. (U.S. Military)
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Rivers, Sanders and Moffett had been all assigned to the 718th Engineer Firm, an Military Reserve unit based mostly in Fort Moore, Georgia, beforehand referred to as Fort Benning.
The Related Press contributed to this report.
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