Chavez, Daniel
Male
Verified In HAQLANIYAH, IRAQ on June 9, 2005, the MARINE CORPS lost LCPL Chavez, Daniel of SEATTLE, WA, 20, serving with 3D PLT, 1ST TANK BN, (RCT-2, 2D MAR DIV), 1ST MAR DIV, TWENTYNINE PALMS, CA. Cause: HOSTILE.
Their Story
Serving as LCPL Chavez, Daniel, from SEATTLE, WA, at age 20, with 3D PLT, 1ST TANK BN, (RCT-2, 2D MAR DIV), 1ST MAR DIV, TWENTYNINE PALMS, CA, he went to Iraq with the MARINE CORPS. He did not come home.
On June 9, 2005, he died in HAQLANIYAH, IRAQ ? HOSTILE ?. 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 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
Chavez, Daniel 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.
