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Pentagon identifies three killed in Syria bombing

By Diana Stancy Correll, Pete Kasperowicz
Published January 18, 2019 12:31pm ET
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Pentagon identifies three killed in Syria bombing
This frame grab from video provided by Hawar News, ANHA, the news agency for the semi-autonomous Kurdish areas in Syria, shows a damaged restaurant where an explosion occurred, in Manbij, Syria, Wednesday, Jan. 16, 2019. The Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, a Syrian war monitoring group, and a local town council said Wednesday that the explosion took place near a patrol of the U.S.-led coalition and that there are casualties. | (ANHA via AP)

The Defense Department on Friday identified three members of the military killed in a suicide bombing in Syria this week:

  • Army Chief Warrant Officer Jonathan Farmer of Florida
  • Navy Chief Cryptologic Technician Shannon Kent of New York
  • DOD civilian Scott Wirtz of Missouri, who was an operations support specialist

Farmer, 37, first joined the Army in 2005 and was the recipient of awards including the Bronze Star Medal and the Purple Heart, per the U.S. Army Special Operations Command Public Affairs. He also served in six overseas combat tours, including two for Operation Iraqi Freedom. He was serving his second tour with Operation Inherent Resolve when he was killed Wednesday.

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