Killed in action
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killed-in-action-225-1714089
title:
Killed in action
text:
Killed in action (KIA) is a casualty classification generally used by militaries to describe the deaths of their own personnel at the hands of enemy or hostile forces at the moment of action. The United States Department of Defense, for example, says that those declared KIA did not need to have fired their weapons, but only to have been killed due to hostile attack. KIAs include those killed by friendly fire in the midst of combat, but not from incidents such as accidental vehicle crashes, murde
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wiki
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encyclopedia
description:
Military casualty classification used for deaths of personnel
original url:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Killed_in_action
date created:
2003-11-16T13:00:23Z
date modified:
2024-09-14T13:59:37Z
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13
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