{"id":1700995,"date":"2022-10-18T09:18:22","date_gmt":"2022-10-18T13:18:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1700995"},"modified":"2022-10-18T09:33:23","modified_gmt":"2022-10-18T13:33:23","slug":"u-s-army-veteran-dies-while-fighting-as-volunteer-in-ukraine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/u-s-army-veteran-dies-while-fighting-as-volunteer-in-ukraine\/","title":{"rendered":"U.S. Army Veteran Dies While Fighting as Volunteer in Ukraine"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">20<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fu-s-army-veteran-dies-while-fighting-as-volunteer-in-ukraine%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1700995&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47-->\n<p>BOISE, Idaho (AP) \u2014 In the days since Dane Partridge was fatally wounded while serving as a volunteer <a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/russia-ukraine-kyiv-business-united-nations-70ab5d4fc3a308e560d3812433e85718\">soldier in Ukraine<\/a>, his sister has found moments of comfort in surprising places: First, a misplaced baseball cap discovered in her laundry room, then in a photo of a battered pickup truck with only one tire intact.<\/p>\n<p>The 34-year-old Idaho man died Tuesday from injuries sustained during during a Russian attack in Luhansk.<\/p>\n<p>A former U.S. Army infantryman, Partridge felt \u201cspiritually called\u201d to volunteer with the <a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/hub\/russia-ukraine\">Ukranian military<\/a> as they defend the country from invading Russian forces, his sister Jenny Corry said. He flew to Poland on a one-way ticket in April, his rucksack packed with body armor, a helmet and other tactical gear.<\/p>\n<article data-embed-button=\"video\" data-entity-embed-display=\"view_mode:media.full\" data-entity-type=\"media\" data-entity-uuid=\"e64fb305-1f23-454e-8475-255db62e09e6\" data-langcode=\"en\" class=\"embedded-entity\">\n<p>\u201cMade it to the embassy, getting on a bus for the border,\u201d Partridge wrote on his Facebook page on April 27. \u201cFrom this point on I will not likely be giving locations or actions for opsec reasons. I will let you all know I\u2019m alive.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Partridge joined a military unit that included several volunteers from other countries, Corry said, the men mostly relying on interpreters to communicate. Partridge and his fellow soldiers were in Severodonetsk, a city in the Luhansk region, when he was hit in the head with shrapnel during an attack by Russian fighting vehicles, Corry said.<\/p>\n<p>The unit had no stretchers and was still under attack, Corry said, but Partridge&#8217;s fellow soldiers carried him out on a blanket and loaded him and other injured colleagues into a drab-painted pickup truck to rush them to safety.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI have a picture of the truck,\u201d Corry said in a phone interview Friday. The photo shows a drab-painted pickup with shredded rubber hanging off the wheel hubs. All but one of the tires were destroyed in the grim rush to safety.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAs a family, we really like that picture of the vehicle \u2014 it speaks to the bravery of how they tried to save their men, and the way they pushed that vehicle to its last leg just to get to the hospital,\u201d she said. \u201cIt speaks volumes.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Partridge leaves behind five young children. Corry deflected questions about the children and some other parts of Partridge&#8217;s life, saying the family had jointly agreed to focus on his military service out of respect to those \u201cwho are still living and still affected by his personal life.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe want to just focus on the good that he did and don&#8217;t want to mention any personal things,\u201d Corry said in a phone interview Friday.<\/p>\n<p>Military service has been a large part of Partridge&#8217;s life. He was the youngest of five kids, and his father was a member of the U.S. Air Force. As a child, Partridge liked to dress up in his dad&#8217;s oversized camouflage uniform and play \u201carmy guy\u201d in the dirt, Corry said.<\/p>\n<p>By the time he&#8217;d graduated high school, Partridge had grown into a gregarious man with a booming voice and<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BOISE, Idaho (AP) \u2014 In the days since Dane Partridge was fatally wounded while serving as a volunteer soldier in Ukraine, his sister has found moments of comfort in surprising places: First, a misplaced baseball cap discovered in her laundry room, then in a photo of a battered pickup truck with only one tire intact. &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1894730,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[547],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1700995","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-bongino-report"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1700995","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1700995"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1700995\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1894730"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1700995"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1700995"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1700995"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}