Bohling, Matthew Charles
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Verified SGT Bohling, Matthew Charles, age 22, of EAGLE RIVER, AK ? Active Duty, ARMY, COMPANY A, 2D BATTALION, 69TH ARMOR, (2 MEF), FORT BENNING, GA, ? died on September 5, 2005 in AR RAMADI, IRAQ. Cause: HOSTILE.
Their Story
Bohling, Matthew Charles of EAGLE RIVER, AK, 22 years old, served in the ARMY with COMPANY A, 2D BATTALION, 69TH ARMOR, (2 MEF), FORT BENNING, GA at the rank of SGT ? one of the Americans deployed to Iraq.
On September 5, 2005, the ARMY lost SGT Bohling, Matthew Charles in AR RAMADI, IRAQ. He was 22. The ARMY 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 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
Bohling, Matthew Charles 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.
