Korte, Noah Mark

Staff Sergeant Noah Mark Korte was a 29-year-old soldier from Lake Elsinore, California. He served with the Headquarters and Headquarters Detachment, 720th Military Police Battalion, 89th Military Police Brigade, based at Fort Hood, Texas.

According to the U.S. Department of Defense, Korte died on December 27, 2011, in Gardez, the capital of Paktia province in eastern Afghanistan. The official announcement stated his death was the result of a hostile incident, though specific details of the engagement were not publicly released by the military.

Korte was deployed as part of Operation Enduring Freedom, the U.S.-led military campaign in Afghanistan that began in October 2001 following the 9/11 attacks. By late 2011, the conflict was in its tenth year, with U.S. and coalition forces engaged in counterinsurgency operations and training Afghan national security forces.

His death was reported by several news outlets, including the Associated Press and the Riverside Press-Enterprise, which covered the announcement from the Department of Defense and noted his California hometown. The 720th Military Police Battalion confirmed the loss to its unit members and families.

Staff Sergeant Korte is memorialized on the Afghanistan War casualty lists maintained by the Department of Defense and on several online veterans' memorial sites. His name appears on the Fallen Heroes Memorial project and similar registries that document service members killed during the war.

Staff Sergeant Korte was killed during Operation Enduring Freedom (2001–2014). The conflict concluded in December 2014. See the full roster of those killed in this conflict.

Among those documented in the same conflict: Andrews, Evander Earl, Edmunds, Jonn Joseph, Stonesifer, Kristofor Tif, Davis, Bryant Leroy.

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