The Defense Department on Friday identified the service member killed Oct. 20 in northern Iraq as Navy Chief Petty Officer Jason C. Finan. Finan, 34, of Anaheim, Calif., was assigned to Explosive Ordnance Disposal Mobile Unit Three, according to a DOD statement. Finan was killed in an improvised explosive device blast, though the Pentagon did not provide any more details into the incident or a more specific location.
The Air Force in October carried out a homeland defense mission, with jets including F-16 Fighting Falcons, in Alaska’s remote Aleutian Islands to show a base there could safeguard the northern regions.