Number 110

Kentucky's 110th sacrifice to the insatiable maw of Baal that is the Permanent War on a Tactic in Iraq and Afghanistan is 30-year-old Daniel N. Fannin of Morehead, in Eastern Kentucky.

Jim Warren, at the Herald:

Air Force Staff Sgt. Daniel N. Fannin's family remembered him Monday as a kind-hearted young man who enjoyed the simple pleasures of camping and fishing, and died serving the country he loved.

Fannin, a Morehead native, was killed Saturday in the crash of an Air Force reconnaissance plane about 100 miles from the Kandahar Airfield in southern Afghanistan. He had turned 30 on April 9.

The U.S. Defense Department said authorities were trying to determine what caused the crash. Officials said, however, that no enemy activity had been reported in the area at the time of the crash.

Daniel Fannin grew up in Morehead, and joined the U.S. Air Force shortly after graduating from Rowan County Senior High School in 2001.

He had lived for several years in Oklahoma with his wife, Sonya Fannin, of Oklahoma City. He was assigned to the Air Force's 552nd Operations Support Squadron at Tinker Air Force Base in Oklahoma City.

 The only question now is whether Kentucky's last Afghanistan War casualty will die before or after its first Syrian War casualty.

The impenetrable stupidity of this shit is beyond comprehension.