{"id":913,"date":"2018-11-26T11:42:11","date_gmt":"2018-11-26T07:12:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ariananews.co\/en\/?p=913"},"modified":"2018-11-26T11:42:11","modified_gmt":"2018-11-26T07:12:11","slug":"the-us-army-ranger-killed-in-afghanistan-identified","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ariananews.co\/en\/afghanistan\/the-us-army-ranger-killed-in-afghanistan-identified\/","title":{"rendered":"The US Army Ranger Killed in Afghanistan Identified"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>U.S. Department of Defense officials say a 25-year-old soldier from Leavenworth, Washington, was killed during combat operations in Afghanistan.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p><em><strong>Ariana News Agency-<\/strong><\/em> Sgt. Leandro Jasso was wounded by small arms fire while conducting combat operations in the Khash Rod District of Nimruz Province in southwestern Afghanistan, the Department of Defense said on Sunday.<br \/>\nThe 25-year-old native of Leavenworth, Washington was medically evacuated to the nearest medical treatment facility in Garmsir District in neighboring Helmand Province where he died of his wounds.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h2><strong>The incident is under investigation.<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Jasso joined the Army in August 2012. At the time of his death, he was serving as the team leader for Alpha Company in his Ranger Regiment&#8217;s 2nd Battalion based out of Joint Base Lewis-McChord in Washington.<\/p>\n<p>He is the 10th U.S. service member to be killed in Afghanistan this year and the second in November.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>U.S. Department of Defense officials say a 25-year-old soldier from Leavenworth, Washington, was killed during combat operations in Afghanistan.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":914,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_mat_hreflang_tags":[],"addvideo":"","video_duration":"","farsit":"","target":"0","top_stories":"1","top":"0"},"categories":[11,2,3],"tags":[226,255],"class_list":["post-913","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-accidents","category-afghanistan","category-world","tag-afghanistan-war","tag-us-forces"],"acf":{"myctype":"change","target":false,"top_stories":true,"top":false,"farsit":""},"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v26.5 (Yoast SEO v27.6) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>The US Army Ranger Killed in Afghanistan Identified<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"U.S. Department of Defense officials say a 25-year-old soldier from Leavenworth, Washington, was killed during combat operations in Afghanistan. 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