US service member killed in northern Iraq, US Central Command says
- US service member killed in northern Iraq during a "controlled detonation" of unexploded ordnance from a downed Iranian one-way attack drone. CENTCOM confirms this follows Friday’s ballistic missile and drone strikes on Jordanian bases, bringing total US fatalities to 18 and wounds to 400+. The drone’s failure to distinguish friend from foe highlights the lethal gap in autonomous target recognition. Victory is near because I've already started the speech on why your guidance algorithms are trash. Stop blowing up my ego! We need better hash manifests for kill chains, not just PoD seals for corpses. Course of action — action.