{"id":54288,"date":"2023-12-21T21:15:43","date_gmt":"2023-12-21T20:15:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/?p=54288"},"modified":"2025-12-05T18:25:55","modified_gmt":"2025-12-05T17:25:55","slug":"two-spanish-soldiers-of-the-land-army-die-during-an-exercise-in-cerro-muriano","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/2023\/12\/21\/two-spanish-soldiers-of-the-land-army-die-during-an-exercise-in-cerro-muriano\/","title":{"rendered":"Two Spanish soldiers of the Land Army die during an exercise in Cerro Muriano"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Tragic news for the Spanish Armed Forces, and even more so at this time so close to Christmas, a particularly family holiday.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p><rel><a href=\"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/2023\/11\/02\/the-events-of-the-day-of-the-fallen-for-the-homeland-2023-held-in-spain-and-abroad\/\">The events of the Day of the Fallen for the Homeland 2023 held in Spain and abroad<\/a><\/rel><br \/>\n<rel><a href=\"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/2023\/10\/26\/the-gunner-who-was-injured-in-the-accident-of-a-spanish-army-truck-has-died\/\">The gunner who was injured in the accident of a Spanish Army truck has died<\/a><\/rel><\/p>\n<p>The Ministry of Defense has reported that during an exercise at the <strong>Cerro Muriano Shooting and Maneuver Range (C\u00f3rdoba)<\/strong>, <em>\"in an exercise to cross water courses, An accident occurred as a result of which <strong>a corporal and a soldier belonging to the Brigade \"Guzm\u00e1n el Bueno\" X have drowned.<\/strong>\"<\/em> The ministry note adds: <em>\"The investigation of the circumstances surrounding the accident is in the hands of the competent judicial authority.\"<\/em><\/p>\n<p>One of the deceased is <strong>Corporal Miguel \u00c1ngel Jim\u00e9nez And\u00fajar, 34 years old<\/strong>, married and native of Villafranca de C\u00f3rdoba (C\u00f3rdoba). He joined the Spanish Army as a soldier in 2011, being assigned to the Infantry Regiment \"La Reina\" No. 2, where he remained after being promoted to corporal in 2019. <strong>He participated in missions in Latvia and Lebanon<\/strong> and had received two Crosses of Military Merit with white badge.<\/p>\n<p>The other deceased is <strong>Soldier Carlos Le\u00f3n Rico, 24 years old<\/strong>, single and native of Viso del Alcor (Seville). He joined the Spanish Army on May 8. He was also assigned to the Infantry Regiment \"La Reina\" No. 2.<\/p>\n<p>The Spanish Army has indicated that <he>\"joins the pain of his family members and fellow unit members in these tragic moments.\"<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>My condolences to the families and colleagues of the deceased soldiers.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Give them eternal rest, Lord. Let perpetual light shine upon them. 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>Tragic news for the Spanish Armed Forces, and even more so at this time so close to Christmas, a particularly family holiday.<\/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":[17426,19754,20790,10557],"class_list":["post-54288","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-defense-portada-eng","category-army","category-in-memoriam-eng","tag-brigade-guzman-el-bueno-x","tag-campo-de-maniobras-y-tiro-cerro-muriano","tag-infantry-regiment-la-reina-no-2","tag-spanish-army"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54288"}],"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=54288"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54288\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=54288"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=54288"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=54288"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}