Fender, Llythaniele
At 21, CPL Fender, Llythaniele of MEDICAL LAKE, WA was serving with the ARMY, BATTERY B, 5TH BATTALION, 5TH AIR DEFENSE ARTILLERY BRIGADE, FORT LEWIS, WA, when he died in KARBALA, IRAQ on June 10, 2007. Cause: HOSTILE.
Their Story
From MEDICAL LAKE, WA, CPL Fender, Llythaniele, serving with BATTERY B, 5TH BATTALION, 5TH AIR DEFENSE ARTILLERY BRIGADE, FORT LEWIS, WA, was 21 years old when he deployed with the ARMY to Iraq.
On June 10, 2007, the ARMY lost CPL Fender, Llythaniele in KARBALA, IRAQ. He was 21. The ARMY recorded the cause as HOSTILE.
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.
Source: Defense Casualty Analysis System (DCAS). Operation: Operation Iraqi Freedom. Date of death: June 10, 2007. Hometown: MEDICAL LAKE, WA.
Explore Further
Fender, Llythaniele 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.