Bartels, Daniel Dean
HHC, 4TH SQUADRON, 14TH CAVALRY, (2MEF), FORT WAINWRIGHT, AK, ARMY ? SPC Bartels, Daniel Dean (HURON, SD), age 22, ? died in MEREZ AID STATION, IRAQ on October 19, 2005.
Their Story
The ARMY, HHC, 4TH SQUADRON, 14TH CAVALRY, (2MEF), FORT WAINWRIGHT, AK, sent Bartels, Daniel Dean of HURON, SD, then 22, ? SPC ? to Iraq.
On October 19, 2005, he died in MEREZ AID STATION, IRAQ. 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 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.
Explore Further
Bartels, Daniel Dean 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.