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'''Killed In Action''', better known as '''KIA''', is a casualty classification used by the [[United Nations Space Command]] that denotes the death of a soldier during/after a combat mission or situation. | |||
Due to the need to increase morale in the United Nations Space Command, [[Spartan-II]] supersoldiers are never listed as 'Killed In Action', but rather as [[Missing In Action]] or [[Wounded in Action]] to give the appearance that they are invincible and can never die. The Spartans-IIs would put a fallen member's status as MIA or WIA on their team's rosters.<ref>[[First Strike]] page 249</ref> Shortly before dying, [[Kurt-051|Kurt-051 Ambrose]] listed several [[Spartan-III]]'s and a Spartan-II ([[William-043]]) as MIA. | |||
There are three other classifications for soldiers, [[MIA]] (Missing In Action) [[WIA]] (Wounded In Action) and [[POW]] (prisoner of war). These four classes for non-active soldiers were used as early as World War I, created by the allied nations in an effort make it easier to tell what happened to wounded, missing, captured or dead soldiers. | |||
== | ==Trivia== | ||
*It was sometimes pronounced it 'K-EE-A', due to people not knowing what it actually meant. | |||
== | == Related Links == | ||
*[[ | *[[Wikipedia:Killed In Action|"{{PAGENAME}}" on Wikipedia]] | ||
*[[ | *[[Missing In Action]] ([[MIA]]) | ||
*[[Wounded in Action]] ([[WIA]]) | |||
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