Mounce, Clifton Blake
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Verified CPL Mounce, Clifton Blake, 22, a native of PONTOTOC, MS, died serving in the Active Duty, MARINE CORPS, K CO, 3D BN, 10TH MAR, 2D MAR DIV, CAMP LEJEUNE, NC, during Operation Iraqi Freedom on July 14, 2005. Cause: HOSTILE.
Their Story
CPL Mounce, Clifton Blake, 22 years old, grew up in PONTOTOC, MS and served as Active Duty in the MARINE CORPS with K CO, 3D BN, 10TH MAR, 2D MAR DIV, CAMP LEJEUNE, NC during Operation Iraqi Freedom.
On July 14, 2005, the MARINE CORPS lost CPL Mounce, Clifton Blake in TREBIL, IRAQ. He was 22. The MARINE CORPS 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 MARINE CORPS 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
Mounce, Clifton Blake 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.
