Fassbender, Huey Pierce Long Iii
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Verified At 24, SGT Fassbender, Huey Pierce Long Iii of LA PLACE, LA was serving with the ARMY, B COMPANY, 2D BATTALION, 156TH INFANTRY, (TF BAGHDAD), NEW IBERIA, LA, when he died in BAGHDAD, IRAQ on January 6, 2005. Cause: HOSTILE.
Their Story
Fassbender, Huey Pierce Long Iii was 24 and from LA PLACE, LA when he joined the National Guard, ARMY, B COMPANY, 2D BATTALION, 156TH INFANTRY, (TF BAGHDAD), NEW IBERIA, LA as SGT. Operation Iraqi Freedom would take his life.
January 6, 2005 ? Fassbender, Huey Pierce Long Iii died in BAGHDAD, IRAQ, HOSTILE. The Department of Defense confirmed his death in 2005.
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
Fassbender, Huey Pierce Long Iii 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.
