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submitted 4 weeks ago by MicroWave@lemmy.world to c/news@lemmy.world

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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[-] HazardousBanjo@lemmy.world 14 points 4 weeks ago

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.

[-] rf_@lemmy.world 5 points 4 weeks ago

I would like to learn more, do you have some links? Or where are you hearing about these?

[-] brachiosaurus@mander.xyz 1 points 3 weeks ago
[-] CannonFodder@lemmy.world 1 points 4 weeks ago

Well they don't usually take the dead ones to a hospital.

[-] Jaberw0cky@lemmy.world -1 points 3 weeks ago

Good? Doesn’t everyone else hope that Iran gets a least a few devastating strikes in? They are the victim here.

[-] SatansMaggotyCumFart@piefed.world 10 points 4 weeks ago

Pennington was assigned to first space battalion

So why was he on earth?

[-] Tm12@lemmy.ca 16 points 4 weeks ago

Technically isn’t anymore

[-] FisherOfSaints@lemmy.world 4 points 4 weeks ago

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.

[-] mrdown@lemmy.world 3 points 4 weeks ago

7 terrorists dead

[-] ThePantser@sh.itjust.works 3 points 4 weeks ago

Per Trump: "Loser"

[-] modus@lemmy.world 2 points 3 weeks ago
[-] Wilco@lemmy.zip 0 points 3 weeks ago

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.

[-] EmpathicVagrant@lemmy.world 1 points 3 weeks ago

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

[-] modus@lemmy.world 1 points 3 weeks ago

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.

[-] hammertime@lemmy.org 2 points 4 weeks ago

Baby killer. No tears.

[-] BackgrndNoize@lemmy.world 2 points 3 weeks ago

Either these soldiers think they are doing something heroic or they feel forced to do this, either way I pity them

[-] Reiterate9120@lemmy.org 1 points 4 weeks ago
[-] FiniteBanjo@feddit.online 1 points 4 weeks ago* (last edited 4 weeks ago)

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

[-] JasonDJ@lemmy.zip 3 points 4 weeks ago

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.

[-] ohulancutash@feddit.uk 1 points 4 weeks ago

Credulous Homicidal Uniformed Military Person #7

[-] Snailpick42@lemmus.org 1 points 3 weeks ago

Imagine dying/killing for trump and jesus.

[-] D_C@sh.itjust.works 1 points 3 weeks ago

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.

[-] FreddiesLantern@leminal.space 1 points 3 weeks ago

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.

[-] Mrkawfee@lemmy.world 1 points 3 weeks ago

He got in the box for Israel

[-] ShinkanTrain@lemmy.ml 0 points 4 weeks ago* (last edited 4 weeks ago)

Rot in piss, rapist.

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