Marion, Adam Lee
From MOUNT AIRY, NC, PFC Marion, Adam Lee served with the ARMY, 171ST ENGINEER COMPANY, 105TH ENGINEER BATTALION, 130TH MEB, 24TH ID, SAINT PAULS, NC, and died on April 28, 2008 in BAGHDAD, IRAQ. He was 26. Cause: HOSTILE.
Their Story
Marion, Adam Lee of MOUNT AIRY, NC, 26 years old, served in the ARMY with 171ST ENGINEER COMPANY, 105TH ENGINEER BATTALION, 130TH MEB, 24TH ID, SAINT PAULS, NC at the rank of PFC ? one of the Americans deployed to Iraq.
April 28, 2008 ? Marion, Adam Lee died in BAGHDAD, IRAQ, HOSTILE. The Department of Defense confirmed his death in 2008.
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
Marion, Adam Lee 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.