{"id":25220,"date":"2024-03-29T14:30:05","date_gmt":"2024-03-29T20:30:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/idahofieldofheroes.com\/?casualty=ard-dustin-b"},"modified":"2024-05-10T23:51:58","modified_gmt":"2024-05-11T05:51:58","slug":"ard-dustin-b","status":"publish","type":"casualty","link":"https:\/\/idahofieldofheroes.com\/?casualty=ard-dustin-b","title":{"rendered":"Ard, Dustin B."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Date<\/strong>: 8\/29\/2019<\/p>\n<p><strong>Rank<\/strong>: Sergeant 1st Class<\/p>\n<p><strong>Branch<\/strong>: U.S. Army<\/p>\n<p><strong>Operation<\/strong>: Operation Freedom Sentinel<\/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=\"1024\" height=\"575\" data-id=\"25436\" src=\"https:\/\/idahofieldofheroes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/MST-Dustin-B-Ard-1024x575.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-25436\" srcset=\"https:\/\/idahofieldofheroes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/MST-Dustin-B-Ard-1024x575.png 1024w, https:\/\/idahofieldofheroes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/MST-Dustin-B-Ard-300x169.png 300w, https:\/\/idahofieldofheroes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/MST-Dustin-B-Ard-768x432.png 768w, https:\/\/idahofieldofheroes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/MST-Dustin-B-Ard.png 1283w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 706px) 89vw, (max-width: 767px) 82vw, 740px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Sgt. 1st Class Dustin Ard, a Green Beret from 1st Special Forces Group, died from wounds sustained during combat operations in Zabul province, Afghanistan, on August 29, 2019, the Department of Defense said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Ard, 31, was assigned to 2nd Battalion, 1st Special Forces Group at Joint Base Lewis-McChord, Washington, the DOD said in a statement. He was born in Idaho Falls, Idaho, and enlisted in Hyde Park, Utah.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He died as a result of \u201cwounds sustained from small arms fire while engaged in combat operations,\u201d in Faryab province, Afghanistan, the Department of Defense said in a statement.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He was posthumously promoted to master sergeant, he was assigned to the 1st Battalion, 7th Special Forces Group (Airborne), based at Eglin Air Force Base in Florida.<\/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":[104],"casualty-tag":[106],"class_list":["post-25220","casualty","type-casualty","status-publish","hentry","casualty-operation-operation-freedom-sentinel","casualty-tag-idaho-casualty"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/idahofieldofheroes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/casualty\/25220","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\/25220\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25438,"href":"https:\/\/idahofieldofheroes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/casualty\/25220\/revisions\/25438"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/idahofieldofheroes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=25220"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"casualty-operation","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/idahofieldofheroes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcasualty-operation&post=25220"},{"taxonomy":"casualty-tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/idahofieldofheroes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcasualty-tag&post=25220"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}