Kruize, Kurt Elmo
Male
Verified In BAGHDAD, IRAQ on April 4, 2010, the ARMY lost SGT Kruize, Kurt Elmo of HANCOCK, MN, 35, serving with COMPANY A, 367TH ENGINEER BATTALION, SAINT CLOUD, MN.
Their Story
Kruize, Kurt Elmo of HANCOCK, MN, 35 years old, served in the ARMY with COMPANY A, 367TH ENGINEER BATTALION, SAINT CLOUD, MN at the rank of SGT ? one of the Americans deployed to Iraq.
On April 4, 2010, the ARMY lost SGT Kruize, Kurt Elmo in BAGHDAD, IRAQ. He was 35.
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 recorded his death in the line of duty. His name is documented in the Defense Casualty Analysis System at https://dcas.dmdc.osd.mil/dcas/app/conflictCasualties/oif.
Explore Further
Kruize, Kurt Elmo 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.
