Burgos-cruz, Ulises
Male
Verified In BALAD, IRAQ on April 6, 2008, the ARMY lost CPT Burgos-cruz, Ulises of HUMACAO, PR, 29, serving with 1-18-5 MITT, ATTACHED TO 2/3 ACR, FORT RILEY, KS. Cause: HOSTILE.
Their Story
Serving as CPT Burgos-cruz, Ulises, from HUMACAO, PR, at age 29, with 1-18-5 MITT, ATTACHED TO 2/3 ACR, FORT RILEY, KS, he went to Iraq with the ARMY. He did not come home.
On April 6, 2008, the ARMY lost CPT Burgos-cruz, Ulises in BALAD, IRAQ. He was 29. 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.
HUMACAO, PR is where Burgos-cruz, Ulises came from. It is where his memory is held. This record is sourced from DCAS, maintained by the US Department of Defense.
Explore Further
Burgos-cruz, Ulises 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.
