Grant, Jonathan Walter
Reserve, MARINE CORPS, D CO, 4TH RECON BN, 4TH MAR DIV, ALBUQUERQUE, NM, LCPL Grant, Jonathan Walter of SANTA FE, NM, 23, died in KARABILAH, IRAQ on May 11, 2005. Cause: HOSTILE.
Their Story
From SANTA FE, NM, LCPL Grant, Jonathan Walter, serving with D CO, 4TH RECON BN, 4TH MAR DIV, ALBUQUERQUE, NM, was 23 years old when he deployed with the MARINE CORPS to Iraq.
The date recorded for his death: May 11, 2005. Location: KARABILAH, IRAQ. Cause: 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 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
Grant, Jonathan Walter 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.