Freitas, Ralph Anthony Webb
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Verified At 23, SGT Freitas, Ralph Anthony Webb of DETROIT, MI was serving with the MARINE CORPS, MWSS-172, MWSG, 1ST MAW, (A CO, TF COURAGE, MNC-I FWD) OKINAWA, JA, when he died in BAGHDAD, IRAQ on December 8, 2009.
Their Story
Freitas, Ralph Anthony Webb of DETROIT, MI, 23 years old, served in the MARINE CORPS with MWSS-172, MWSG, 1ST MAW, (A CO, TF COURAGE, MNC-I FWD) OKINAWA, JA at the rank of SGT ? one of the Americans deployed to Iraq.
On December 8, 2009, the MARINE CORPS lost SGT Freitas, Ralph Anthony Webb in BAGHDAD, IRAQ. He was 23.
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 MARINE CORPS 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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Freitas, Ralph Anthony Webb 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.
