Civilian Contractor Dies of Heart Attack After Rocket Attack on Iraq Base
A U.S. Military Working Dog soldier and Polish engineer soldiers from Task Force Minecraft assist a Base Operating Support Integrator engineer Soldier with base perimeter inspections at Al Asad Air Base, Iraq, Jan. 27, 2021. (U.S. Army National Guard/Staff Sgt. Armando Vasquez)
3 Mar 2021
A civilian U.S. contractor died of a heart attack he suffered during a rocket attack at Iraq's Al Asad Air Base early Wednesday morning.
No U.S. service members were injured during the barrage of roughly 10 rockets fired at the base in western Iraq, the Pentagon said Wednesday. But the contractor had a heart attack while sheltering in place and died shortly afterward.