Drone strike that killed US troops highlights military vulnerability overseas
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🗓️ 30 January 2024
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| 0:00.0 | Wunderry Plus subscribers can listen to USA Today's the excerpt ad free right now. |
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| 0:08.0 | Good morning, I'm Taylor Wilson and today is Tuesday January 30th, 2024. This is the |
| 0:19.8 | excerpt. |
| 0:24.0 | Today, making sense of Sunday's drone attack that killed U.S. service members. |
| 0:29.0 | Plus what research tells us about rape victims and pregnancy in states with abortion bans. |
| 0:35.2 | And we have the latest from Donald Trump's legal battles. |
| 0:39.5 | A drone attack on Sunday in Jordan was the third in six months on a base known as Tower 22. |
| 0:45.8 | The attack killed three U.S. service members and wounded 34 others. |
| 0:49.9 | The White House has blamed Iranian-backed militias for the latest attack. |
| 0:54.0 | To help us better understand Sunday's incident and the broader context in the Middle East. |
| 0:58.5 | I spoke with USA Today Pentagon correspondent, Tom Vandenbrooke. |
| 1:02.4 | Tom, thanks for hopping on the excerpt today. |
| 1:05.0 | Taylor, good to be here. |
| 1:06.0 | So Tom, let's just get the basics here at the top. |
| 1:09.0 | What happened on Sunday at this U.S. base? |
| 1:12.0 | It's a little unclear, but some of the details are emerging |
| 1:14.3 | Taylor. We do know that three soldiers were killed when a one-way attack drone |
| 1:19.2 | struck their base in Jordan on the Syrian border. |
| 1:23.3 | And it appears to have happened |
| 1:24.6 | when they were sleeping in their living quarters |
| 1:26.8 | and the drone hit those living quarters and exploded. |
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