Cronkrite, Brud Joseph
Male
Verified Active Duty, ARMY, C COMPANY, 1ST BATTALION, 37TH ARMOR REGIMENT (1 AD) FRIEDBERG, GERMANY 09074, SGT Cronkrite, Brud Joseph of SPRING VALLEY, CA, 22, died in BAGHDAD, IRAQ on May 14, 2004. Cause: HOSTILE.
Their Story
Cronkrite, Brud Joseph of SPRING VALLEY, CA, 22 years old, served in the ARMY with C COMPANY, 1ST BATTALION, 37TH ARMOR REGIMENT (1 AD) FRIEDBERG, GERMANY 09074 at the rank of SGT ? one of the Americans deployed to Iraq.
May 14, 2004 ? Cronkrite, Brud Joseph died in BAGHDAD, IRAQ, HOSTILE. The Department of Defense confirmed his death in 2004.
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
Cronkrite, Brud Joseph 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.
