Lake, Chad William
From OCALA, FL, SSG Lake, Chad William served with the ARMY, C TROOP, 5TH SQUADRON, 7TH CAVALRY, 3D INFANTRY DIVISION, FORT STEWART, GA, and died on February 13, 2005 in BALAD, IRAQ. He was 26.
Their Story
A Active Duty member of the ARMY ? C TROOP, 5TH SQUADRON, 7TH CAVALRY, 3D INFANTRY DIVISION, FORT STEWART, GA ? serving as SSG, Lake, Chad William was 26 and came from OCALA, FL.
Killed on February 13, 2005 in BALAD, IRAQ, Lake, Chad William 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.
Source: Defense Casualty Analysis System (DCAS). Operation: Operation Iraqi Freedom. Date of death: February 13, 2005. Hometown: OCALA, FL.
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Lake, Chad William 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.