Bangayan, Solomon Carias
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Verified In BAGHDAD, IRAQ on January 2, 2004, the ARMY lost SPC Bangayan, Solomon Carias of JAY, VT, 24, serving with CO B, 2D BATTALION / 325TH PARACHUTE INFANTRY REGIMENT, FORT BRAGG, NC 28307. Cause: HOSTILE.
Their Story
Bangayan, Solomon Carias was 24 and from JAY, VT when he joined the Active Duty, ARMY, CO B, 2D BATTALION / 325TH PARACHUTE INFANTRY REGIMENT, FORT BRAGG, NC 28307 as SPC. Operation Iraqi Freedom would take his life.
On January 2, 2004, he died in BAGHDAD, IRAQ ? HOSTILE ?. His name entered the Defense Casualty Analysis System that day.
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 classified his death as "HOSTILE" ? a category that matters to the families who must make sense of it. His name is documented in the Defense Casualty Analysis System at https://dcas.dmdc.osd.mil/dcas/app/conflictCasualties/oif.
Explore Further
Bangayan, Solomon Carias 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.
