Kemp Orders Flags At Half-Staff To Honor GA Soldier Killed In Jordan

GEORGIA — Flags on all Georgia buildings and grounds will fly at half-staff the day one of three Georgia Army reservists killed in a Jan. 28 Jordan drone strike will be buried.

Gov. Brian Kemp ordered Tuesday the flags fly at half-staff on Feb. 17 in honor of Specialist Kennedy Sanders, a 24-year-old horizontal construction engineer from Waycross. This is the day a funeral will be held for Sanders.

She was killed alongside Specialist Breonna Alexsondria Moffett, 23, of Savannah, and Sgt. William Jerome Rivers, 46, of Carrollton.

"As we continue to honor the bravery and sacrifice of the three service members who died serving our nation, I’ve ordered flags be lowered in honor of Sergeant Kennedy Sanders on Feb. 17," Kemp said Tuesday on Facebook. "I will do the same for our other honored fallen when their funeral arrangements are finalized."

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The soldiers died after a "one-way unmanned aerial system impacted their container housing units," the U.S. Department of Defense previously said.

Rivers, Sanders and Moffett were assigned to the 718th Engineer Company, 926th Engineer Battalion, 926th Engineer Brigade, in Fort Moore, defense officials said.

The deadly strike happened at a remote military outpost near the Syrian border, according to the New York Times.

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Sanders enlisted in the Army Reserve in 2019 and was assigned to the 381st Engineer Company in Tifton after her training.

She finished an eight-month rotation in 2018 to Djibouti in support of Operation Enduring Freedom and was reassigned in 2023 to Fort Moore.