{"id":53550,"date":"2023-10-26T20:04:11","date_gmt":"2023-10-26T18:04:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/?p=53550"},"modified":"2025-12-05T18:26:07","modified_gmt":"2025-12-05T17:26:07","slug":"the-gunner-who-was-injured-in-the-accident-of-a-spanish-army-truck-has-died","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/2023\/10\/26\/the-gunner-who-was-injured-in-the-accident-of-a-spanish-army-truck-has-died\/","title":{"rendered":"The gunner who was injured in the accident of a Spanish Army truck has died"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Brigade \"Galicia\" VII (BRILAT) of the Spanish Army is once again in mourning after <a href=\"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/2023\/10\/20\/el-accidente-de-un- artillery-truck-in-which-a-spanish-soldier-has-died\/\">the recent death of one of its artillerymen<\/a>.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p><rel><a href=\"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/2023\/10\/20\/the-accident-of-an-artillery-truck-in-which-a-spanish-soldier-has-died\/\">The accident of an artillery truck in which a Spanish soldier has died<\/a><\/rel><br \/>\n<rel><a href=\"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/2023\/09\/21\/a-spanish-soldier-of-the-special-operations-command-moe-dies-due-to-an-accident\/\">A Spanish soldier of the Special Operations Command (MOE) dies due to an accident<\/a><\/rel><\/p>\n<p>On Thursday, October 19, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/2023\/10\/20\/the-accident-of-an-artillery-truck-in-which-a-spanish-soldier-has-died\/\">Soldier Iv\u00e1n Mejuto Rodr\u00edguez died in an accident in Langa de Duero (Soria)<\/a>, when <strong>the truck he was driving<\/strong>, a Specific Tractor Vehicle ( VET) Iveco-Pegaso M.250.37WM of 10 tons, <em>\"<strong>left the road, for unknown reasons, and fell down a slope about five meters high<\/strong>\"<\/em>, when they returned to their base after participating in the Gamma Azor 23 exercise, carried out at the CENAD San Gregorio in Zaragoza, according to the Army. <strong>The deceased soldier belonged to the Field Artillery Group VII (GACA VII) of the BRILAT<\/strong>, based in Figueirido (Pontevedra).<\/p>\n<div class=\"foto_piedefoto\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/53272793303_ae2376d67d_o.jpg\" style=\"width:100%; height:auto;\" \/><\/div>\n<div class=\"piedefoto\">Image of the Specific Tractor Vehicle (VET) Iveco-Pegaso M.250.37WM of the GACA VII that was involved in an accident a week ago (Photo: <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Bomberos_Aranda\/status\/1715068981285953830\/photo\/1\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Bomberos Aranda de Duero<\/a>).<\/div>\n<p>The Spanish Army indicated a week ago that due to the same accident, Sergeant Molina, assigned to the same unit, was hospitalized in the University Hospital of Burgos. Sadly, this afternoon <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/EjercitoTierra\/status\/1717587709999435967\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">the Spanish Army has announced<\/a> <strong>the death of Sergeant Ra\u00fal Molina Descalzo<\/strong>. He was 24 years old and served in the GACA VII of the BRILAT, like Soldier Iv\u00e1n Mejuto who died a week ago.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/53286655187_7a3de3d3d4_o.jpg\" style=\"width:100%; height:auto; border:0px;\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>My condolences to the family and comrades of the deceased sergeant.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Give Lord eternal rest. Let perpetual light shine upon him. Rest in peace.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>Honor demanded and they obeyed,<br \/>\nDuty required it and they complied with it;<br \/>\nWith their blood the company was signed<br \/>\nWith their efforts they made the country great.<\/p>\n<p>They were big and strong, because they were<br \/>\nFaithful to the oath they swore.<br \/>\nThat's why they fought like brave men,<br \/>\nAnd they died like heroes.<\/p>\n<p>Dying for the country was his destiny,<br \/>\nLove Spain its eternal passion,<br \/>\nServe in the Armies his vocation and fate.<\/p>\n<p>They did not want to serve another Flag,<br \/>\nThey did not want to walk another path,<br \/>\nThey didn't know how to live any other way.<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/5629\/22582905265_608631007e_b.jpg\" style=\"width:100%; height:auto; margin:10px 0 10px 0;\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Brigade \u00abGalicia\u00bb VII (BRILAT) of the Spanish Army is once again in mourning after the recent death of one of its artillerymen.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[19534,11544,25897],"tags":[17573,10095,5309,20385,20438,10557],"class_list":["post-53550","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-defense-portada-eng","category-army","category-in-memoriam-eng","tag-brigade-galicia-vii-brilat","tag-grupo-de-artilleria-de-campana-vii-gaca-vii","tag-iveco-pegaso-m-250-37wm","tag-langa-de-duero","tag-sargento-raul-molina-descalzo","tag-spanish-army"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53550"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=53550"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53550\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=53550"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=53550"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=53550"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}