Gienau, Richard Brian
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Verified National Guard, ARMY, A COMPANY , 224TH ENGINEERBATTALION, (1 MEF), 105TH TROOP COMMAND, BURLINGTON, IOWA, 2LT Gienau, Richard Brian of WATERLOO, IA, 29, died in AR RAMADI, IRAQ on February 27, 2005. Cause: HOSTILE.
Their Story
Serving as 2LT Gienau, Richard Brian, from WATERLOO, IA, at age 29, with A COMPANY , 224TH ENGINEERBATTALION, (1 MEF), 105TH TROOP COMMAND, BURLINGTON, IOWA, he went to Iraq with the ARMY. He did not come home.
Killed on February 27, 2005 in AR RAMADI, IRAQ ? HOSTILE ?, Gienau, Richard Brian was one of the 4418 Americans the country lost in Operation Iraqi Freedom.
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
Gienau, Richard Brian 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.
