3 American service members killed, 25 injured in drone attack on base in Jordan, U.S. says - CBS News
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Via: vic-eldred • 10 months ago • 47 commentsBy: Stefan Becket (CBSPolitics)
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January 28, 2024 / 11:46 AM EST / CBS News
Three American service members were killed and 25 more were injured in an unmanned aerial drone attack on a base in Jordan on Sunday, President Biden and the U.S. military said.
In a statement, the president blamed the attack on "radical Iran-backed militant groups operating in Syria and Iraq." Mr. Biden said the attack happened at a base in northeast Jordan, close to the border with Syria.
U.S. Central Command, which oversees forces in the Middle East, put the number of wounded at 25, and said the identities of those killed would be withheld for 24 hours after their families had been notified.
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It was only a matter of time.
Ok Joe let's see what you are made of.
maybe we can call on our allies the kurds to help us out? oh wait, never mind...
Or maybe Biden will just keep talking about abortion.
This is a problem for him. He should have been hiding in the basement by now.
Vic, are you aware that the 1st Battalion, 181st Infantry Regiment of the Massachusetts Army National Guard were formally sent off for their deployment on January 24th, just a few days ago. You could have given them moral support by being at their send off.
Kavika, the kind of support our service members needed was meaningful responses to all of those attacks. Instead of waiting and having them dodge bullets, Biden has normalized all these attacks.
My guess is if he is scheduled to make comments about this attack, he will inevitably go out on a tangent and start talking about Bidenomics.
Then blame Trump for the attacks.
If he can read what is written for him and find his way to and from the podium.
More than likely not.
The dems claim he has 5 more years left in him.
Are you saying that our strikes on the terrorists are not meaningful? And how has Biden normalized the attacks since they happened under Trump as well.
They are not. I've been saying that right along and obviously Tehran has agreed.
And how has Biden normalized the attacks since they happened under Trump as well.
There is no comparison. Trump put an end to ISIS (Obama's "junior varsity team) and killed Soleimani.
Biden used soft targets.
What nonsense, you are aware that it isn't Iran that is attacking the US it's their proxies which say they do not want to confront the US head on.
LOL, BS it was Kurds that played a major role in defeating ISIS and Trump pissed backward on them, which is part of the course for cowards.
He killed Solamani and Iran responded with two ballistic missle attacks that injured over 100 Americans. We've been through this before and you were wrong then and you wrong now by leaving out important information.
Cheers.
" Biden blamed Iran-backed militias for the first U.S. fatalities after months of strikes by such groups against American forces across the Middle East amid the Israel-Hamas war."
Biden says Iran-backed militia behind drone strike that killed 3 U.S. troops, injured 25 in Jordan | PBS NewsHour
Biden couldn't be a leader on his best day.
Have a god one.
" Biden blamed Iran-backed militias for the first U.S. fatalities after months of strikes by such groups against American forces across the Middle East amid the Israel-Hamas war."
Once again you did not use my complete comment which was accurate and then after that you tried to make a point by using my point.
This is my complete comment:
It would serve you to not stoop to that childish nonsense and debate like an adult.
Well, he certainly had a better day than your hero, who lost a court case to E Jean Carrol to the tune of $83 million. To see him stomp out of the courtroom during closing arguments was classic, the sign of a child not an adult.
Cheers
All roads lead to Iran. It won't stop until Iran is dealt with.
Two days have gone by since those service members were killed and about 40 more injured. Biden doesn't yet know what to do.
It is this country that is having a bad day: The devil's own day.
Adios.
I'm sure it will be at least these two days, that's how it's done. A time and place of our choosing, standard military response/action.
We have suffered a blow, a cruel blow losing three service members, but it is far from the devil's own day.
Baamaapii
the longer the delay, the bigger the hit, especially if it's surgical. there's plenty of iranians and their proxies waiting to be killed outside of iran.
Oh, ya, Biden is doing everything by the book.
We have suffered a blow
And we will suffer more as long as this new line has been crossed without consequences.
Tâ ba’d
Then Iran must be expecting massive retaliation. Somehow, I feel that is unlikely.
Which Kurdish factions are you talking about?
The ones that Turkey considers terrorist groups? Or the one that we aided and protected in Iraq?
You might want to know that the factions don't get along.
You might want to learn a little something about our "allies" before you call on them for help. Like which faction to ask for help from.
Doesn't matter, no matter what he does, the right wing radicals will just keep right on complaining.
I'll settle for a strike on the command center or a nuke facility within Iran.
Right on this article.
But then you would curse him as a warmonger. Christ, you've already blamed him for Ukraine.
Maybe he will wag his finger as he says "Don't, don't don't".
That's about the size of it and our military is paying the price.
160 plus attacks on out forces with no real consequences just means this will keep happening and more troops will be hurt and killed.
You must have missed all the strikes the US has done to date. If you so anxious to attack the two units of the Wisconsin National Guard are currently deployed in Eastern Europe you could join up.
There are a few comments in the last 2 threads that are getting personal. Please stop.
Seems like ya can't spit without hitting an American service member. Any idea why we have troops in Jordan other than to give some neoliberal a skim off foreign aid? Surely this ain't another one of Biden's quid-pro-quos.
You mean weakness invites attacks?
Will we finally get strong action?
... and speaking of terrorist attacks by sheet wearing cowards, senator tom cotton.
Senator Tom Cotton volunteered for military service after graduating from Havard University:
On January 11, 2005, Cotton enlisted in the United States Army . [10] He entered Officer Candidate School (OCS) in March 2005 and was commissioned as a second lieutenant in June. [11] He completed the U.S. Army Ranger Course , [12] [13] a 62-day small unit tactics and leadership program that earned him the Ranger tab , and Airborne School to earn the Parachutist Badge . [11]
In May 2006, Cotton was deployed to Baghdad as part of Operation Iraqi Freedom (OIF) as a platoon leader with the 101st Airborne Division . In Iraq , he led a 41-man air assault infantry platoon in the 506th Infantry Regiment , and planned and performed daily combat patrols. [11]
In December 2006 Cotton was promoted to first lieutenant and reassigned to the 3d Infantry Regiment (The Old Guard) at Fort Myer in Arlington, Virginia, as a platoon leader. [14]
From October 2008 to July 2009, [ citation needed ] Cotton was deployed to eastern Afghanistan . He was assigned within the Train Advise Assist Command – East at its Gamberi forward operating base (FOB) in Laghman Province as the operations officer of a Provincial Reconstruction Team (PRT), where he planned daily counter-insurgency and reconstruction operations. [11]
Cotton was honorably discharged in September 2009. During his time in the service, he completed two combat deployments overseas, was awarded a Bronze Star , two Army Commendation Medals , a Combat Infantryman Badge , a Ranger tab , an Afghanistan Campaign Medal , and an Iraq Campaign Medal . [11]
Tom Cotton - Wikipedia
Did you ever serve?
he got his bronze star for efficiently shuffling paperwork in a rear area office while suffering from hemorrhoids...
You think operating at a forward base in Afghanistan is "shuffling paperwork"?
Do you think the 12 US service members that died at the Kabul airport during Brandon's disastrous withdrawal were just pulling guard duty?
"Military officials have released the identities of three Army Reserve soldiers killed in a one-way drone attack that occurred Sunday at a U.S. military base in northeastern Jordan near the country’s borders with Syria and Iraq.
The three fallen troops were all members of the Army Reserve’s 718th Engineer Company. Their names, according to Defense Department and Army releases, are: Sgt. William Jerome Rivers, 46, a resident of Carrollton, Georgia; Spc. Kennedy Ladon Sanders, 24, of Waycross, Georgia; and Spc. Breonna Alexsondria Moffett, 23, of Savannah, Georgia."
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Three Army Reserve soldiers were killed in the Jan. 28, 2024, drone attack on the Tower 22 base in Jordan. From L to R: Spc. Kennedy L. Sanders, Spc. Breonna A. Moffett, and Sgt. William J. Rivers. All three were assigned to the 718th Engineer Company, based at Fort Moore, Georgia. (Courtesy/Army Public Affairs)
"At least 34 other service members were injured in the attack, including eight who required medical evacuation from Jordan, said Central Command. Iran-backed militia groups, supported by the Iran Revolutionary Guard Corps, launched the drone, according to U.S. officials.
The drone hit the soldiers’ housing units, the Army release said, adding that an investigation into their deaths is underway."
Pentagon IDs Army Reserve soldiers killed in Jordan Tower 22 attack (navytimes.com)
WASHINGTON (AP) — U.S. forces may have mistaken an enemy drone for an American one and let it pass unchallenged into a desert base in Jordan where it killed three U.S. troops and wounded dozens more, officials said Monday.
Enemy Drone That Killed US Troops in Jordan Was Mistaken for a US Drone, Preliminary Report Suggests (usnews.com)
The woman is bullshit