Ford, Joshua Andrew
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Verified 189TH TRANSPORTATION CO, 485TH CORPS SUPPORT BATTALION,(3 CC) WIESBADEN, GM, ARMY ? SGT Ford, Joshua Andrew (WAYNE, NE), age 20, ? died in NUMANIYAH, IRAQ on July 31, 2006. Cause: HOSTILE.
Their Story
Ford, Joshua Andrew was 20 and from WAYNE, NE when he joined the National Guard, ARMY, 189TH TRANSPORTATION CO, 485TH CORPS SUPPORT BATTALION,(3 CC) WIESBADEN, GM as SGT. Operation Iraqi Freedom would take his life.
On July 31, 2006, he died in NUMANIYAH, 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
Ford, Joshua Andrew 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.
