Guereca, Jose Rodriguez Jr
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Verified From MISSOURI CITY, TX, SGT Guereca, Jose Rodriguez Jr served with the ARMY, C CO, 1ST BN, 5TH CAVALRY REGIMENT, 1ST CAVALRY DIVISION, FORT HOOD, TX, and died on November 30, 2004 in FALLUJAH, IRAQ. He was 24. Cause: HOSTILE.
Their Story
Guereca, Jose Rodriguez Jr was 24 and from MISSOURI CITY, TX when he joined the Active Duty, ARMY, C CO, 1ST BN, 5TH CAVALRY REGIMENT, 1ST CAVALRY DIVISION, FORT HOOD, TX as SGT. Operation Iraqi Freedom would take his life.
He did not survive OIF. The ARMY recorded his death on November 30, 2004 in FALLUJAH, IRAQ, from 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
Guereca, Jose Rodriguez Jr 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.
