Jenkins, Kenneth Andrew
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Verified SSG Jenkins, Kenneth Andrew, 25, a native of FOUKE, AR, died serving in the Active Duty, ARMY, COMPANY A, 3D BATTALION, 67TH ARMOR, 4 BCT, FORT HOOD, TX, during Operation Iraqi Freedom on August 12, 2006. Cause: HOSTILE.
Their Story
Serving as SSG Jenkins, Kenneth Andrew, from FOUKE, AR, at age 25, with COMPANY A, 3D BATTALION, 67TH ARMOR, 4 BCT, FORT HOOD, TX, he went to Iraq with the ARMY. He did not come home.
On August 12, 2006, he died in BALAD, IRAQ ? HOSTILE ?. His name entered the Defense Casualty Analysis System that day.
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
Jenkins, Kenneth 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.
