Gagarin, Greg Phil
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Verified Active Duty, ARMY, BATTERY B, 1ST BATTALION, 37TH FIELD ARTILLERY, FORT LEWIS, WA, SSG Gagarin, Greg Phil of LOS ANGELES, CA, 38, died in THIANA, IRAQ on June 3, 2007. Cause: HOSTILE.
Their Story
Gagarin, Greg Phil of LOS ANGELES, CA, 38 years old, served in the ARMY with BATTERY B, 1ST BATTALION, 37TH FIELD ARTILLERY, FORT LEWIS, WA at the rank of SSG ? one of the Americans deployed to Iraq.
He did not survive OIF. The ARMY recorded his death on June 3, 2007 in THIANA, IRAQ, from 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.
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
Gagarin, Greg Phil 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.
