{"id":19950,"date":"2024-03-29T14:19:09","date_gmt":"2024-03-29T20:19:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/idahofieldofheroes.com\/?casualty=birch-dustin-vincent"},"modified":"2024-05-11T00:02:12","modified_gmt":"2024-05-11T06:02:12","slug":"birch-dustin-vincent","status":"publish","type":"casualty","link":"https:\/\/idahofieldofheroes.com\/?casualty=birch-dustin-vincent","title":{"rendered":"Birch, Dustin Vincent"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Date<\/strong>: 6\/9\/2005<\/p>\n<p><strong>Rank<\/strong>: Lance Corporal<\/p>\n<p><strong>Branch<\/strong>: U.S. Marine<\/p>\n<p><strong>Operation<\/strong>: Operation Iraqi Freedom<\/p>\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-gallery has-nested-images columns-default is-cropped wp-block-gallery-1 is-layout-flex wp-block-gallery-is-layout-flex\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"280\" height=\"408\" data-id=\"25447\" src=\"https:\/\/idahofieldofheroes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/CPL-Dustin-V-Birch.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-25447\" srcset=\"https:\/\/idahofieldofheroes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/CPL-Dustin-V-Birch.png 280w, https:\/\/idahofieldofheroes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/CPL-Dustin-V-Birch-206x300.png 206w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 280px) 100vw, 280px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Dustin Birch, assigned to Marine Forces Reserve&#8217;s 4th Tank Battalion, 4th Marine Division out of Boise, Idaho was killed in Haqlaniyah, Iraq, on June 9th, 2005 when the tank he was traveling in was damaged by a mine blast. Uninjured, Birch and \u00a0others from the tank crew were picked up by a military Humvee, which was hit by a second mine explosion. Birch and four others died in the explosion.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Dustin Birch joined the Marine Corps Reserves after graduating from high school and received permission to take a two-year leave to serve a full-time mission. He was called to serve at the California Santa Rosa Mission where he labored hard and honorably. Returning from missionary service, Birch continued his military training and began a deployment to Iraq in 2005. Military service and duty suited the young man.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Dustin is survived by his parents, Paul and Deborah Birch, and three siblings: Dallen, 21, Terik, 18, and JJ, 15. He was engaged to be married to Melissa Taylor when he returned from Iraq.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":0,"template":"","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"casualty-operation":[100],"casualty-tag":[106],"class_list":["post-19950","casualty","type-casualty","status-publish","hentry","casualty-operation-operation-iraqi-freedom","casualty-tag-idaho-casualty"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/idahofieldofheroes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/casualty\/19950","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/idahofieldofheroes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/casualty"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/idahofieldofheroes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/casualty"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/idahofieldofheroes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/casualty\/19950\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25449,"href":"https:\/\/idahofieldofheroes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/casualty\/19950\/revisions\/25449"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/idahofieldofheroes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=19950"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"casualty-operation","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/idahofieldofheroes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcasualty-operation&post=19950"},{"taxonomy":"casualty-tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/idahofieldofheroes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcasualty-tag&post=19950"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}