Mellen, Casey Lee
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Verified CPL Mellen, Casey Lee, age 21, of HUACHUCA CITY, AZ ? Active Duty, ARMY, HHC, 5TH BATTALION, 20TH INFANTRY REGIMENT, (25TH ID), FORT LEWIS, WA, ? died on September 25, 2006 in BALAD, IRAQ. Cause: HOSTILE.
Their Story
Mellen, Casey Lee of HUACHUCA CITY, AZ, 21 years old, served in the ARMY with HHC, 5TH BATTALION, 20TH INFANTRY REGIMENT, (25TH ID), FORT LEWIS, WA at the rank of CPL ? one of the Americans deployed to Iraq.
On September 25, 2006, the ARMY lost CPL Mellen, Casey Lee in BALAD, IRAQ. He was 21. 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.
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
Mellen, Casey 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.
