Dang, Andrew Steven
Male
Verified 1ST CEB, 1ST MAR DIV, CAMP PENDLETON, CA, MARINE CORPS ? LCPL Dang, Andrew Steven (FOSTER CITY, CA), age 20, ? died in AR RAMADI, IRAQ on March 22, 2004. Cause: HOSTILE.
Their Story
Serving as LCPL Dang, Andrew Steven, from FOSTER CITY, CA, at age 20, with 1ST CEB, 1ST MAR DIV, CAMP PENDLETON, CA, he went to Iraq with the MARINE CORPS. He did not come home.
Killed on March 22, 2004 in AR RAMADI, IRAQ ? HOSTILE ?, Dang, Andrew Steven was one of the 4418 Americans the country lost in Operation Iraqi Freedom.
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
Dang, Andrew Steven 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.
