1st American soldier killed in Iraq since war on ISIS says Pentagon
Baghdad (IraqiNews.com) On Saturday, U.S. Pentagon announced the first death of an American solider in Iraq in the U.S. military campaign against the ISIS militant group.
Lance Corporal Sean P. Neal served as a Marine soldier. Neal was 19 years old from Riverside, California and was killed in Baghdad last Thursday during what the Pentagon described as a noncombat-related incident.
He was assigned to 2nd Battalion, 7th Marine Regiment, Special Purpose Marine Air Ground Task Force — Crisis Response — Central Command, whose headquarters element deploys from Camp Pendleton, Calif., according to the DOD news release.
The Pentagon had announced earlier in October that Cpl. Jordan L. Spears, 21, is the first American marine to die in the war on ISIS. The soldier had died after jumping from a military plane in the waters of the Gulf.
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