Hale, James Melvin
Male
Verified Active Duty, ARMY, 978TH MILITARY POLICE COMPANY, 716TH MP BN, 18TH MP BDE, FORT BLISS, TX, CPL Hale, James Melvin of NAPERVILLE, IL, 23, died in BAGHDAD, IRAQ on August 13, 2008. Cause: HOSTILE.
Their Story
From NAPERVILLE, IL, CPL Hale, James Melvin, serving with 978TH MILITARY POLICE COMPANY, 716TH MP BN, 18TH MP BDE, FORT BLISS, TX, was 23 years old when he deployed with the ARMY to Iraq.
He did not survive OIF. The ARMY recorded his death on August 13, 2008 in BAGHDAD, 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
Hale, James Melvin 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.
