Hanson, Joshua Robert
Male
Verified National Guard, ARMY, COMPANY A, 2D BATTALION, 136TH INFANTRY (I MEF), MOORHEAD, MN, SSG Hanson, Joshua Robert of WEST SAINT PAUL, MN, 27, died in KHALDEA, IRAQ on August 30, 2006. Cause: HOSTILE.
Their Story
A National Guard member of the ARMY ? COMPANY A, 2D BATTALION, 136TH INFANTRY (I MEF), MOORHEAD, MN ? serving as SSG, Hanson, Joshua Robert was 27 and came from WEST SAINT PAUL, MN.
He did not survive OIF. The ARMY recorded his death on August 30, 2006 in KHALDEA, 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
Hanson, Joshua Robert 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.
