Cota, Victor M
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Verified From TUCSON, AZ, SSG Cota, Victor M served with the ARMY, COMPANY D, 4TH DIVISION SPECIAL TROOPS BATTALION, FORT HOOD, TX, and died on May 14, 2008 in BAGHDAD, IRAQ. He was 33. Cause: HOSTILE.
Their Story
Serving as SSG Cota, Victor M, from TUCSON, AZ, at age 33, with COMPANY D, 4TH DIVISION SPECIAL TROOPS BATTALION, FORT HOOD, TX, he went to Iraq with the ARMY. He did not come home.
On May 14, 2008, he died in BAGHDAD, 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 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.
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Cota, Victor M 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.
