Kubik, Brian James
At 20, SPC Kubik, Brian James of HARKER HEIGHTS, TX was serving with the ARMY, COMPANY A, 1ST BATTALION, 502D INFANTRY, 2D BCT, FORT CAMPBELL, KY, when he died in LANDSTUHL, GERMANY on August 5, 2006. Cause: HOSTILE.
Their Story
A Active Duty member of the ARMY ? COMPANY A, 1ST BATTALION, 502D INFANTRY, 2D BCT, FORT CAMPBELL, KY ? serving as SPC, Kubik, Brian James was 20 and came from HARKER HEIGHTS, TX.
Killed on August 5, 2006 in LANDSTUHL, GERMANY ? HOSTILE ?, Kubik, Brian James 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
Kubik, Brian James 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.