Kilpela, Andrew Jacob
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Verified Active Duty, MARINE CORPS, 2D CEB, RCT-8, 2D MAR DIV, CAMP LEJEUNE, NC, CPL Kilpela, Andrew Jacob of FOWERVILLE, MI, 22, died in SAQLAWIYAH, IRAQ on June 10, 2005. Cause: HOSTILE.
Their Story
Serving as CPL Kilpela, Andrew Jacob, from FOWERVILLE, MI, at age 22, with 2D CEB, RCT-8, 2D MAR DIV, CAMP LEJEUNE, NC, he went to Iraq with the MARINE CORPS. He did not come home.
Killed on June 10, 2005 in SAQLAWIYAH, IRAQ ? HOSTILE ?, Kilpela, Andrew Jacob 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 MARINE CORPS 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
Kilpela, Andrew Jacob 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.
