Lightner, Nicholas James
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Verified Active Duty, ARMY, HHC, 1ST SQUADRON, 8TH CAVALRY, 2BCT, (2ID), FORT HOOD, TX, SGT Lightner, Nicholas James of NEWPORT, OR, 29, died in WASHINGTON, UNITED STATES on March 21, 2007. Cause: HOSTILE.
Their Story
A Active Duty member of the ARMY ? HHC, 1ST SQUADRON, 8TH CAVALRY, 2BCT, (2ID), FORT HOOD, TX ? serving as SGT, Lightner, Nicholas James was 29 and came from NEWPORT, OR.
On March 21, 2007, he died in WASHINGTON, UNITED STATES ? HOSTILE ?. His name entered the Defense Casualty Analysis System that day.
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
Lightner, Nicholas 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.
