A soldier who was injured amid final summer time’s Gaza pier mission lately died, the U.S. Military confirmed.
Sgt. Quandarius Davon Stanley, 23, handed away on Oct. 31, in accordance with an internet obituary. He was certainly one of three troopers injured in the course of the Gaza pier mission, which concerned offering humanitarian assist to Gazans amid the Israel-Hamas battle.
The Biden administration had sought to create a brief pier to facilitate bringing assist into Gaza. The hassle, which started in Could and led to July, price practically $230 million and delivered considerably much less assist than it had promised.
Unhealthy climate and miscalculations had contributed to the mission’s failures, although the navy thought of it successful.
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Quandarius Davon Stanley, who served in the course of the Gaza pier mission, handed away after receiving vital accidents over the summer time. (Getty Pictures / U.S. Military)
In a press release offered to Reuters, the Military confirmed Stanley’s dying. The younger soldier had lately retired from the navy and was receiving long-term medical care.
“Stanley was an instrumental and well respected first line leader in the 7th Transportation Brigade Expeditionary (TBX), especially during the mission to provide humanitarian assistance to the people of Gaza,” Colonel John Grey, the commander of the unit, stated.
In June, the deputy commander of U.S. Central Command reported that two troopers on the mission suffered a sprained ankle and a minor again damage, respectively.
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Humanitarian assist is lifted by a crane operated by Troopers assigned to the seventh Transportation Brigade (Expeditionary) from a Navy causeway on the Port of Ashdod, Israel. (Malcolm Cohens-Ashley/U.S. Military Central by way of Getty Pictures)
The official famous that the third service member – who was not named on the time – was injured whereas supporting the mission and was evacuated to an Israeli hospital.
“We’re clear eyed and we continue to look at force protection all day, every day and as it stands now we assess the operations can continue,” U.S. Vice Admiral Brad Cooper stated.
US troopers stand on the pier because the USAV SP4 James A. Loux casts off from Joint Base Langley-Eustis throughout a media preview of the seventh Transportation Brigade deployment in Hampton, Virginia, on March 12, 2024. (ROBERTO SCHMIDT/AFP by way of Getty Pictures)
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Reuters contributed to this report.
