Graves, Joseph Anthony
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Verified In BAGHDAD, IRAQ on July 25, 2006, the ARMY lost SPC Graves, Joseph Anthony of DISCOVERY BAY, CA, 21, serving with 110TH MILITARY POLICE, 49TH MILITARY POLICE BN, (43D MP BDE), FORT HOOD, TX. Cause: HOSTILE.
Their Story
SPC Graves, Joseph Anthony, 21 years old, grew up in DISCOVERY BAY, CA and served as Active Duty in the ARMY with 110TH MILITARY POLICE, 49TH MILITARY POLICE BN, (43D MP BDE), FORT HOOD, TX during Operation Iraqi Freedom.
On July 25, 2006, the ARMY lost SPC Graves, Joseph Anthony in BAGHDAD, IRAQ. He was 21. The ARMY recorded the cause as 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
Graves, Joseph Anthony 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.
