Jerak, Ivica
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Verified MSG Jerak, Ivica, age 42, of HOUSTON, TX ? Active Duty, ARMY, US ARMY SPECIAL OPERATIONS COMMAND, (CJSOTF-A), FORT BRAGG, NC, ? died on August 26, 2005 in AL QAIM, IRAQ. Cause: HOSTILE.
Their Story
From HOUSTON, TX, MSG Jerak, Ivica, serving with US ARMY SPECIAL OPERATIONS COMMAND, (CJSOTF-A), FORT BRAGG, NC, was 42 years old when he deployed with the ARMY to Iraq.
Killed on August 26, 2005 in AL QAIM, IRAQ ? HOSTILE ?, Jerak, Ivica was one of the 4418 Americans the country lost in Operation Iraqi Freedom.
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
Jerak, Ivica 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.
