{"id":22489,"date":"2024-03-29T14:24:14","date_gmt":"2024-03-29T20:24:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/idahofieldofheroes.com\/?casualty=tillery-joshua-michael"},"modified":"2024-05-13T20:16:44","modified_gmt":"2024-05-14T02:16:44","slug":"tillery-joshua-michael","status":"publish","type":"casualty","link":"https:\/\/idahofieldofheroes.com\/?casualty=tillery-joshua-michael","title":{"rendered":"Tillery, Joshua Michael"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Date<\/strong>: 1\/26\/2009<\/p>\n<p><strong>Rank<\/strong>: Chief Warrant Officer<\/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=\"184\" height=\"231\" data-id=\"25681\" src=\"https:\/\/idahofieldofheroes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/CW2-Joshua-M-Tillery.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-25681\"\/><\/figure>\n<\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Joshua M. Tillery\u2019s stepfather described him as an excellent father and someone who loved to help people. Tillery also loved to fly.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cHe basically had his head on straight on his shoulders,\u201d Roger Trueax said. \u201cHe knew where he was going, he knew where he had been.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Tillery, 31, of Beaverton, Ore., was killed Jan. 26 when two OH-58D Kiowa Warrior helicopters crashed in Kirkuk, Iraq. He was assigned to Fort Drum.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Tillery loved photography, snowboarding and dirt biking. His mother said he stood about 6 feet tall and had big brown eyes, a strong jaw and an irresistible smile.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The latest in a line of military men, he made forts as a boy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Kids would knock on the family\u2019s door to ask whether Josh would fix their bikes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Tillery met his wife-to-be, Stephanie, while they were stationed together at Fort Lewis in Washington. They married a few months after the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>They have three children \u2014 twins, Alec and Colin, who are now 6, and a third son, Hayden, is 2. Stephanie Tillery is pregnant with a fourth child \u2014 another boy \u2014 expected to be born in May.<\/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,"footnotes":""},"casualty-operation":[100],"casualty-tag":[106],"class_list":["post-22489","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\/22489","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\/22489\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25683,"href":"https:\/\/idahofieldofheroes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/casualty\/22489\/revisions\/25683"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/idahofieldofheroes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=22489"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"casualty-operation","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/idahofieldofheroes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcasualty-operation&post=22489"},{"taxonomy":"casualty-tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/idahofieldofheroes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcasualty-tag&post=22489"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}