Garcia Schill, Juan Manuel
Active Duty, MARINE CORPS, H&S CO, 2D BN, 7TH MAR, 1ST MAR DIV, TWENTYNINE PALMS, CA, LCPL Garcia Schill, Juan Manuel of GRANTS PASS, OR, 20, died in AL TAQADDUM, IRAQ on July 2, 2007. Cause: HOSTILE.
Their Story
From GRANTS PASS, OR, LCPL Garcia Schill, Juan Manuel, serving with H&S CO, 2D BN, 7TH MAR, 1ST MAR DIV, TWENTYNINE PALMS, CA, was 20 years old when he deployed with the MARINE CORPS to Iraq.
On July 2, 2007, he died in AL TAQADDUM, 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 MARINE CORPS 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
Garcia Schill, Juan Manuel 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.