Duenas, Joseph Jonathan
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Verified PFC Duenas, Joseph Jonathan, age 23, of MESA, AZ ? Active Duty, ARMY, COMPANY C, 1ST BATTALION, 327TH INFANTRY, 1ST BCT, FORT CAMPBELL, KY, ? died on March 30, 2006 in TIKRIT, IRAQ. Cause: HOSTILE.
Their Story
PFC Duenas, Joseph Jonathan, 23 years old, grew up in MESA, AZ and served as Active Duty in the ARMY with COMPANY C, 1ST BATTALION, 327TH INFANTRY, 1ST BCT, FORT CAMPBELL, KY during Operation Iraqi Freedom.
On March 30, 2006, he died in TIKRIT, 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.
Explore Further
Duenas, Joseph Jonathan 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.
