Menyweather, Eddie Eugene
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Verified SSG Menyweather, Eddie Eugene, 35, a native of LOS ANGELES, CA, died serving in the Active Duty, ARMY, COMPANY C 588TH ENGINEER BATTALION, FORT HOOD, TX 76544, during Operation Iraqi Freedom on November 23, 2003. Cause: HOSTILE.
Their Story
A Active Duty member of the ARMY ? COMPANY C 588TH ENGINEER BATTALION, FORT HOOD, TX 76544 ? serving as SSG, Menyweather, Eddie Eugene was 35 and came from LOS ANGELES, CA.
November 23, 2003 ? Menyweather, Eddie Eugene died in BAQUBAH, IRAQ, HOSTILE. The Department of Defense confirmed his death in 2003.
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
Menyweather, Eddie Eugene 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.
