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killed in action
(redirected from Died of wounds)

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A casualty category applicable to a hostile casualty, other than the victim of a terrorist activity, who is killed outright or who dies as a result of wounds or other injuries before reaching a medical treatment facility. Also called KIA. See also casualty category.


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Other provisions in both versions of the bill make it easier for Massachusetts residents on duty overseas to cast an absentee ballot and create a Medal of Liberty for the governor to award to family members of service members killed in action, or who died of wounds received in action.
The other service member died of wounds received after encountering an IED while on patrol.
One soldier killed when his patrol struck a roadside bomb, while the other died of wounds he had sustained in a separate landmine attack.
 
 
 
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