{"id":217406,"date":"2026-07-22T01:49:32","date_gmt":"2026-07-22T01:49:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/217406\/"},"modified":"2026-07-22T01:49:32","modified_gmt":"2026-07-22T01:49:32","slug":"dow-identifies-an-army-casualty-u-s-department-of-war-release","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/217406\/","title":{"rendered":"DOW Identifies an Army Casualty > U.S. Department of War > Release"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Department of War announced the death of an active-duty Soldier who was supporting overseas operations in Iraq.<\/p>\n<p>Sgt. Michael Emmanuel Swinton, 30, of Fayetteville, North Carolina, was killed in action during a controlled detonation of a downed One-Way Unmanned Aerial System on July 19, 2026, at Erbil Air Base, Iraq. The incident is under investigation.<\/p>\n<p>Sgt. Swinton was assigned to D Battery, 2nd Battalion, 55th Air Defense Artillery Regiment, 108th Air Defense Artillery Brigade, Fort Bragg, North Carolina.<\/p>\n<p>For more information regarding Sgt. Michael Emmanuel Swinton, members of the media may contact the U.S. Army Space and Missile Defense Command at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.war.gov\/News\/Releases\/Release\/Article\/4550900\/dow-identifies-an-army-casualty\/mailto:usarmy.redstone.smdc.list.public-affairs@army.mil\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">usarmy.redstone.smdc.list.public-affairs@army.mil<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Department of War announced the death of an active-duty Soldier who was supporting overseas operations in Iraq.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":209046,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[14],"tags":[2648,2650,2653,2613,394,94,2651,179,1403,2649,2652,51],"class_list":["post-217406","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-iraq","tag-department-of-war","tag-deputy-secretary","tag-deputy-secretary-of-war","tag-dow","tag-government","tag-iraq","tag-joint-chief","tag-military","tag-pentagon","tag-secretary","tag-secretary-of-war","tag-united-states"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@iran\/116961120222233555","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/217406","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=217406"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/217406\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/209046"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=217406"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=217406"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=217406"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}