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Jack Dragoni

Veterans News and Views

Jack Dragoni attended Boston College and served in the U.S. Army in Berlin and Vietnam. He resides in Chaffee, Missouri.

Define war

Thursday, March 31, 2016

On March 28, 2016, U.S. Marine Corps Staff Sergeant was killed in a Taliban attack on a new Marine artillery outpost near Makhmour, Iraq. The rocket attack on the outpost also wounded three other Marines. However, the Department of Defense does not refer to this incident as a combat operation.

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