Moon, Jae Sik
Male
Verified From LEVITTOWN, PA, SSG Moon, Jae Sik served with the ARMY, COMPANY B, 2D BATTALION, 12TH INFANTRY, FORT CARSON, CO, and died on December 25, 2006 in BAGHDAD, IRAQ. He was 21. Cause: HOSTILE.
Their Story
Moon, Jae Sik of LEVITTOWN, PA, 21 years old, served in the ARMY with COMPANY B, 2D BATTALION, 12TH INFANTRY, FORT CARSON, CO at the rank of SSG ? one of the Americans deployed to Iraq.
He did not survive OIF. The ARMY recorded his death on December 25, 2006 in BAGHDAD, IRAQ, from 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
Moon, Jae Sik 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.
