{"id":20342,"date":"2024-03-29T14:20:04","date_gmt":"2024-03-29T20:20:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/idahofieldofheroes.com\/?casualty=alarcon-ivan-vargas"},"modified":"2024-05-22T14:03:12","modified_gmt":"2024-05-22T20:03:12","slug":"alarcon-ivan-vargas","status":"publish","type":"casualty","link":"https:\/\/idahofieldofheroes.com\/?casualty=alarcon-ivan-vargas","title":{"rendered":"Alarcon, Ivan Vargas"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Date<\/strong>: 11\/17\/2005<\/p>\n<p><strong>Rank<\/strong>: Staff Sergeant<\/p>\n<p><strong>Branch<\/strong>: U.S. Army<\/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=\"384\" height=\"512\" data-id=\"25406\" src=\"https:\/\/idahofieldofheroes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/SSG.-Ivan-V.-Alarcon.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-25406\" srcset=\"https:\/\/idahofieldofheroes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/SSG.-Ivan-V.-Alarcon.jpg 384w, https:\/\/idahofieldofheroes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/SSG.-Ivan-V.-Alarcon-225x300.jpg 225w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 384px) 100vw, 384px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>SSG Ivan Alarcon, assigned to the 473<sup>rd<\/sup> Quartermaster Company, Hunter Army Airfield, Georgia was killed on November 17<sup>th<\/sup>, 2005 in Tal Afar, Iraq when his Humvee rolled over during combat operations.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Ivan had two sides, the bookworm who got good grades in high school and the guy who tinkered under the hood of cars. Ivan was a very outgoing person, very active, very hardworking. He wanted to be a mechanic and enjoyed coming home and working on his dad\u2019s car.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Ivan joined the Army in 1999 after graduating from Jerome High School and when his four years of service were up, he signed up for a few more. He was looking forward to opening up his own business, a car repair and audio shop, with his younger brother when his term of service was up in January of 2007.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He is remembered by friends as a hero and an \u2018awesome kid\u2019.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Ivan is survived by his parents, two sisters and four brothers.<\/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-20342","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\/20342","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\/20342\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25408,"href":"https:\/\/idahofieldofheroes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/casualty\/20342\/revisions\/25408"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/idahofieldofheroes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=20342"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"casualty-operation","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/idahofieldofheroes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcasualty-operation&post=20342"},{"taxonomy":"casualty-tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/idahofieldofheroes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcasualty-tag&post=20342"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}