Pentagon identifies US service member killed in Iranian attack on Iraq base

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The Pentagon on Tuesday identified the U.S. service member who was killed over the weekend in Iraq during a “controlled detonation” of unexploded ordnance from a downed Iranian one-way attack drone. Sgt. Michael Emmanuel Swinton, 30, of Fayetteville, N.C., was killed during the detonation of the drone on Saturday at Erbil Air Base in Iraq —…