Best, Marvin Leslie
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Verified In AL ANBAR PROVINCE, IRAQ on June 19, 2004, the MARINE CORPS lost SSGT Best, Marvin Leslie of PROSSER, WA, 33, serving with HQ CO, 2D BN, 7TH MAR, RCT-7, 1ST MAR DIV, TWENTYNINE PALMS, CA. Cause: HOSTILE.
Their Story
Serving as SSGT Best, Marvin Leslie, from PROSSER, WA, at age 33, with HQ CO, 2D BN, 7TH MAR, RCT-7, 1ST MAR DIV, TWENTYNINE PALMS, CA, he went to Iraq with the MARINE CORPS. He did not come home.
On June 19, 2004, he died in AL ANBAR PROVINCE, IRAQ ? HOSTILE ?. His name entered the Defense Casualty Analysis System that day.
In the first year of occupation, military victory gave way to an insurgency the US hadn't planned for. Disbanding the Iraqi army created a vacuum. Armed groups filled it immediately.
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
Best, Marvin Leslie 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.
