Gould, Dustin Michael
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Verified At 28, SSGT Gould, Dustin Michael of LONGMONT, CO was serving with the MARINE CORPS, 7TH ESB BN (-), (EOD CO, 2D MLG FWD) , 1ST MLG, CAMP PENDLETON, CA, when he died in RAMADI, IRAQ on March 2, 2007. Cause: HOSTILE.
Their Story
Gould, Dustin Michael was 28 and from LONGMONT, CO when he joined the Active Duty, MARINE CORPS, 7TH ESB BN (-), (EOD CO, 2D MLG FWD) , 1ST MLG, CAMP PENDLETON, CA as SSGT. Operation Iraqi Freedom would take his life.
Killed on March 2, 2007 in RAMADI, IRAQ ? HOSTILE ?, Gould, Dustin Michael was one of the 4418 Americans the country lost in Operation Iraqi Freedom.
The years 2005?2007 were OIF's deadliest. Sectarian violence surged after the 2006 bombing of the al-Askari shrine in Samarra. American troops were caught between militias, insurgents, and a government that barely functioned.
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.
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Gould, Dustin Michael 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.
