COLUMBUS, Ga. ( WRBL ) – WBRL has learned that the three U.S. Army reservists killed in the drone strike in Jordan were assigned to an engineering unit based at Fort Moore.
As of now, sources tell WRBL that all three causalities were Georgians assigned to the 718th Engineer Company, the 926th Engineer Battalion and the 926th Engineer Brigade.
The three U.S. Army reservists were tasked with supporting Operation Inherent Resolve. The unit is called a tenant unit on Fort Moore. Although all three are based here in Columbus, the chain of command resides at Fort Liberty in North Carolina and does not fall under Ft. Moore’s chain of command.
The Pentagon recently released the identities of the three killed in the drone strike; 46-year-old Sgt. William Jerome Rivers from Carrollton, Georgia, 24-year-old Specialist Kennedy Ladon Sanders from Waycross, Georgia, and 23-year-old Spc. Breonna Alexsondria Moffett from Savannah, Georgia.
Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp reacted with sorrow to their deaths.