Courtois, Matthew Ryan
366TH SECURITY FORCES SQUADRON, MOUNTAIN HOME AFB, ID, AIR FORCE ? SRA Courtois, Matthew Ryan (LUCAS, TX), age 22, ? died in KUWAIT CITY, KUWAIT on September 20, 2009.
Their Story
A Active Duty member of the AIR FORCE ? 366TH SECURITY FORCES SQUADRON, MOUNTAIN HOME AFB, ID ? serving as SRA, Courtois, Matthew Ryan was 22 and came from LUCAS, TX.
On September 20, 2009, he died in KUWAIT CITY, KUWAIT. 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.
Source: Defense Casualty Analysis System (DCAS). Operation: Operation Iraqi Freedom. Date of death: September 20, 2009. Hometown: LUCAS, TX.
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Courtois, Matthew Ryan 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.