Mahaffee, Shane Reichert Martin
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Verified On May 15, 2006, the ARMY lost CPT Mahaffee, Shane Reichert Martin of GURNEE, IL in LANDSTUHL, GERMANY. He was 36. Cause: HOSTILE.
Their Story
Serving as CPT Mahaffee, Shane Reichert Martin, from GURNEE, IL, at age 36, with 489TH CIVIL AFFAIRS BATTALION, KNOXVILLE, TN, he went to Iraq with the ARMY. He did not come home.
On May 15, 2006, the ARMY lost CPT Mahaffee, Shane Reichert Martin in LANDSTUHL, GERMANY. He was 36. The ARMY recorded the cause as HOSTILE.
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: May 15, 2006. Hometown: GURNEE, IL.
Explore Further
Mahaffee, Shane Reichert Martin 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.
