Bascom, Douglas Edwin
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Verified WPNS CO, 2D BN, 5TH MAR, 2-BCT, 1ST MAR DIV, CAMP PENDLETON, CA, MARINE CORPS ? SGT Bascom, Douglas Edwin (COLORADO SPRINGS, CO), age 25, ? died in AR RAMADI, IRAQ on October 20, 2004. Cause: HOSTILE.
Their Story
Bascom, Douglas Edwin was 25 and from COLORADO SPRINGS, CO when he joined the Reserve, MARINE CORPS, WPNS CO, 2D BN, 5TH MAR, 2-BCT, 1ST MAR DIV, CAMP PENDLETON, CA as SGT. Operation Iraqi Freedom would take his life.
On October 20, 2004, the MARINE CORPS lost SGT Bascom, Douglas Edwin in AR RAMADI, IRAQ. He was 25. The MARINE CORPS recorded the cause as HOSTILE.
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 MARINE CORPS 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
Bascom, Douglas Edwin 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.
