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This is an Easy find...Take a moment to look at the near by building and what it means. A Very Motivated Micro near a very important place. You are looking for a metal micro (log only/BYOP) Please take a picture and upload it if you like this one ...not too worried about spoilers for this little Devil Dog! Parking will be an Isssue M-F from 8am to 5PM. Please don't block the driveway
This Cache is in HONOR of all Veterans of all wars past, present and future. Killed in action (KIA) is a casualty classification generally used by militaries to describe the deaths of their own forces at the hands of hostile forces. The United States Department of Defense, for example, says that those declared KIA need not have fired their weapons but have been killed due to hostile attack. KIA’s do not come from incidents such as accidental vehicle crashes and other "non-hostile" events or terrorism. KIA can be applied both to front-line combat troops and to naval, air and support troops. Someone who is killed in action during a particular event is denoted with a † (Unicode U+2020: Dagger) beside their name to signify their death in that event. Missing in action (MIA) is a casualty Category assigned under the Status of Missing to armed services personnel who are reported missing during active service. They may have been killed, wounded, become a prisoner of war. If deceased, neither their remains nor grave can be positively identified. Becoming MIA has been an occupational risk for service personnel for as long as there has been warfare. The city of Irvine, CA erected the first and only American memorial for ongoing wars. This was dedicated in 2010 and was more than half filled (capacity: 8000 names) at dedication. The Irvine Long War Memorial. It will be updated annually as more deaths occur. Global war on terrorism [Operation Iraqi Freedom (Iraq War) A small number of coalition soldiers went missing in action in Iraq immediately following the 2003 invasion. Eight servicemen were captured and later released (see American POWs in the 2003 invasion of Iraq). Other cases were quickly resolved when the bodies were recovered. Following this were the following POW/MIA cases: On April 9, 2004, US Army soldier SSG Keith Matthew "Matt" Maupin (at that time a PFC) was captured in an ambush near the Baghdad International Airport. On April 16, 2004, Maupin appeared on a videotape that was broadcast by the Arabic-language television network Al Jazeera. On June 28, 2004, Al Jazeera reported that Maupin was executed by a group identifying itself as The Persistent Power Against the Enemies of God and the Prophet. The method of execution in the video was a gunshot to the head. On March 30, 2008, Maupin's father told local newsmedia that the remains of his son had been found. He states that an Army general had told him that DNA was used to identify the remains. According to an Army statement, Maupin's remains "were recovered northwest of Baghdad on March 20, by soldiers from 1st Battalion, 21st Infantry, based out of Schofield Barracks, Hawaii, part of the 25th Infantry Division's 2nd Stryker Brigade Combat Team." On June 19, 2004, a US Marine of Lebanese background, CPL Wassef Ali Hassoun, went missing and claimed to have been captured. He later turned up in Lebanon, and was flown home to the U.S. It was soon discovered Hassoun made the kidnapping story up, and Hassoun is currently a fugitive. On June 16, 2006, a three US soldiers patrol in an armored humvee was overwhelmed south of Baghdad. One soldier died during the fight, while the other two were captured and tortured to death. Their names were PFC Kristian Menchaca and PFC Thomas Lowell Tucker. Their bodies were found on June 20, 2006. On October 23, 2006, US Army soldier SSG Ahmed Kousay Altaie (at that time a SPC) was captured by insurgents. He appeared in a proof of life video in February 2007 but was not heard of again. Ahmed's remains were recovered in February 2012. November 27, 2006 - An F-16C Fighting Falcon, serial number 90-0776, from the 524th Fighter Squadron crashes near Fallujah while on a low-altitude ground-strafing run. The pilot, Major Troy Gilbert, was killed. His body was taken by insurgents. It was never recovered. On January 20, 2007 insurgent commandos raided a Karbala provincial headquarters in Karbala, Iraq (see Karbala provincial headquarters raid). The attacked resulted in three American soldiers being wounded and 1 killed. Four servicemen, CPT Brian Freeman, 1LT Jacob Fritz, SPC Jonathan Chism and PFC Shawn Falter were captured and executed. On May 12, 2007 a US Army observation post was overrun by Iraqi insurgents, four American and one Iraqi soldier were killed. Three US soldiers were captured. They were PFC Joseph J. Anzack Jr., PVT Byron W. Fouty and SPC Alex Jimenez. Iraqi police found PFC Anzacks' body in the Euphrates River south of Baghdad on May 23, 2007 bearing signs of torture. On June 4, 2007. The insurgent organization Islamic State of Iraq (ISI) claimed that they killed PVT Fouty and SPC Jimenez and also claimed that their bodies were buried and would not be returned to their families. On Wednesday July 9, 2008,the bodies of PVT Byron Fouty and SPC Alex Jimenez were found in an area south of Baghdad known as the "triangle of death". The families of the victims were notified and the Defense Department released a statement to the public on July 11, 2008. Although the Department of Defense claims all of the servicemen above as accounted for, Major Troy Gilbert's body has not been recovered. A small amount of tissue was recovered from the crashsite which was used to classify him as Killed in Action, Body Recovered. However, al-Qaeda has released two videos, showing the desecration of his body and his photo ID card. The US Air Force has recently agreed to resume looking for his body
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