Now this is a brave man.
Soldier killed in IS operation ‘hard not to be friends with’
WASHINGTON — The US soldier fatally wounded in a hostage rescue mission in Iraq heroically inserted himself into a firefight to defend Kurdish soldiers, even though the plan called for the Kurds to do the fighting, Defense Secretary Ash Carter said Friday.
‘‘This is someone who saw the team that he was advising and assisting coming under attack, and he rushed to help them and made it possible for them to be effective, and in doing that lost his own life,’’ Carter told a Pentagon news conference.
Carter applauded Army Master Sergeant Joshua L. Wheeler, 39, of Roland, Okla., who died of his wounds Thursday.
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Soldier killed in IS operation ‘hard not to be friends with’
WASHINGTON — The US soldier fatally wounded in a hostage rescue mission in Iraq heroically inserted himself into a firefight to defend Kurdish soldiers, even though the plan called for the Kurds to do the fighting, Defense Secretary Ash Carter said Friday.
‘‘This is someone who saw the team that he was advising and assisting coming under attack, and he rushed to help them and made it possible for them to be effective, and in doing that lost his own life,’’ Carter told a Pentagon news conference.
Carter applauded Army Master Sergeant Joshua L. Wheeler, 39, of Roland, Okla., who died of his wounds Thursday.
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http://www.bostonglobe.com/news/nat...lled-operation-hard-not-friends-with/xjig9foh
