Dickens, Tyler Joe
At 20, CPL Dickens, Tyler Joe of COLUMBUS, GA was serving with the ARMY, HHT, 2D SQUADRON, 11TH ARMORED CAVALRY REGIMENT, FORT IRWIN, CA, when he died in FORT SAM HOUSTON, UNITED STATES on April 12, 2005.
Their Story
Dickens, Tyler Joe was 20 and from COLUMBUS, GA when he joined the Active Duty, ARMY, HHT, 2D SQUADRON, 11TH ARMORED CAVALRY REGIMENT, FORT IRWIN, CA as CPL. Operation Iraqi Freedom would take his life.
April 12, 2005 ? Dickens, Tyler Joe died in FORT SAM HOUSTON, UNITED STATES. The Department of Defense confirmed his death in 2005.
The years 2005?2007 were OIF's deadliest. Sectarian violence surged after the 2006 bombing of the al-Askari shrine in Samarra. American troops were caught between militias, insurgents, and a government that barely functioned.
The ARMY recorded his death in the line of duty. His name is documented in the Defense Casualty Analysis System at https://dcas.dmdc.osd.mil/dcas/app/conflictCasualties/oif.
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Dickens, Tyler Joe 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.