Mcginnis, Ricky Lee
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Verified At 42, 1SG Mcginnis, Ricky Lee of HAMILTON, OH was serving with the ARMY, TROOP A, 6TH SQUADRON, 9TH CAVALRY, FORT HOOD, TX, when he died in BALAD, IRAQ on October 26, 2006. Cause: HOSTILE.
Their Story
Mcginnis, Ricky Lee was 42 and from HAMILTON, OH when he joined the Active Duty, ARMY, TROOP A, 6TH SQUADRON, 9TH CAVALRY, FORT HOOD, TX as 1SG. Operation Iraqi Freedom would take his life.
October 26, 2006 ? Mcginnis, Ricky Lee died in BALAD, IRAQ, HOSTILE. The Department of Defense confirmed his death in 2006.
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
Mcginnis, Ricky 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.
