Alarcon, Ivan Vargas
From JEROME, ID, SSG Alarcon, Ivan Vargas served with the ARMY, 473D QUARTERMASTER COMPANY, (MNC-I) HUNTER ARMY AIRFIELD, GA, and died on November 17, 2005 in TAL AFAR, IRAQ. He was 23.
Their Story
A Active Duty member of the ARMY ? 473D QUARTERMASTER COMPANY, (MNC-I) HUNTER ARMY AIRFIELD, GA ? serving as SSG, Alarcon, Ivan Vargas was 23 and came from JEROME, ID.
Killed on November 17, 2005 in TAL AFAR, IRAQ, Alarcon, Ivan Vargas was one of the 4418 Americans the country lost in Operation Iraqi Freedom.
Operation Iraqi Freedom began March 19, 2003 with the US-led invasion. The stated justification ? weapons of mass destruction ? was never found. Seven years of occupation, insurgency, and sectarian war followed, killing 4,418 Americans and an estimated 200,000 Iraqi civilians.
The ARMY recorded his death in the line of duty. His name is documented in the Defense Casualty Analysis System at https://dcas.dmdc.osd.mil/dcas/app/conflictCasualties/oif.
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Alarcon, Ivan Vargas was killed during Operation Iraqi Freedom (from March 2003 to August 2010). The conflict concluded in August 2010. See the full roster of those killed in this conflict.
Among those documented in the same conflict: Kennedy, Brian Matthew, Beaupre, Ryan Anthony, Gutierrez, Jose, Waters-bey, Kendall Damon.