Mcgee, John Edward
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Verified At 36, SSG Mcgee, John Edward of COLUMBUS, GA was serving with the ARMY, 2101ST TRANSPORTATION COMPANY, 19TH CSB, 122D CSG (1 CC), CAMDEN, AL, when he died in AD DIWANIYAH, IRAQ on May 2, 2005. Cause: HOSTILE.
Their Story
Mcgee, John Edward of COLUMBUS, GA, 36 years old, served in the ARMY with 2101ST TRANSPORTATION COMPANY, 19TH CSB, 122D CSG (1 CC), CAMDEN, AL at the rank of SSG ? one of the Americans deployed to Iraq.
Killed on May 2, 2005 in AD DIWANIYAH, IRAQ ? HOSTILE ?, Mcgee, John Edward 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
Mcgee, John Edward 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.
