Ciraso, Kristofer Raymond
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Verified At 26, SSG Ciraso, Kristofer Raymond of BANGOR, ME was serving with the ARMY, COMPANY A, 1ST BATTALION, 5TH INFANTRY, 2 BCT, FORT HOOD, TX, when he died in HAWIJA, IRAQ on December 7, 2006. Cause: HOSTILE.
Their Story
Ciraso, Kristofer Raymond of BANGOR, ME, 26 years old, served in the ARMY with COMPANY A, 1ST BATTALION, 5TH INFANTRY, 2 BCT, FORT HOOD, TX at the rank of SSG ? one of the Americans deployed to Iraq.
On December 7, 2006, the ARMY lost SSG Ciraso, Kristofer Raymond in HAWIJA, IRAQ. He was 26. 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
Ciraso, Kristofer Raymond 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.
