Harris, Blake Andrew
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Verified At 22, SGT Harris, Blake Andrew of PUEBLO, CO was serving with the ARMY, HHT, 1ST SQUADRON, 12TH CAVALRY, 3 BCT, (25 ID), FORT HOOD, TX, when he died in FOB WARHORSE, IRAQ on March 5, 2007. Cause: HOSTILE.
Their Story
Harris, Blake Andrew was 22 and from PUEBLO, CO when he joined the Active Duty, ARMY, HHT, 1ST SQUADRON, 12TH CAVALRY, 3 BCT, (25 ID), FORT HOOD, TX as SGT. Operation Iraqi Freedom would take his life.
On March 5, 2007, the ARMY lost SGT Harris, Blake Andrew in FOB WARHORSE, IRAQ. He was 22. 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
Harris, Blake Andrew 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.
