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| {{Status|Canon}} | | '''Killed In Action''', '''KIA''', is a casualty classification used by the [[United Nations Space Command]] that denotes the death of friendly forces during combat. |
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| {{Quote|Looks like a [[Covenant]] patrol. Badass [[Elite]] units, all KIA.|[[Sergeant]] [[Avery J. Johnson]] to [[Captain (Navy)|Captain]] [[Jacob Keyes]] on [[Alpha Halo]]}} | | *[[Wikipedia:Killed In Action|"{{PAGENAME}}" on Wikipedia]] |
| '''Killed in Action''', better known as '''KIA''', is a casualty classification used by the [[United Nations Space Command]] that denotes the death of a serviceman during or after a combat mission or situation. | | *[[Missing In Action]] |
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| Due to the need to increase morale in the UNSC armed forces, the [[Office of Naval Intelligence]] issued [[ONI Directive 930]], requiring that [[SPARTAN-II program|SPARTAN-II]] and [[SPARTAN-III program]] casualties be listed as [[Missing in Action]] or [[Wounded in Action]], to create the illusion that such personnel were invincible. The SPARTAN-IIs would put a fallen member's status as MIA or WIA on their team's rosters.<ref>'''[[Halo: First Strike]]''', ''page 249''</ref>
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| ==See also==
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| *[[Missing in action|Missing in Action (MIA)]]
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| *[[Wounded in action|Wounded in Action (WIA)]]
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| ==External links== | |
| *[[Wikipedia:Killed In Action|'''Wikipedia''''s article on "Killed In Action"]] | |
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| [[Category:Military terminology]]
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