Murphy-sweet, Philip Anthony
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Verified CDR Murphy-sweet, Philip Anthony, age 42, of CALDWELL, ID ? Active Duty, NAVY, NAVICP MECHANISBURG PA (NWCF) MECHANICSBURG, PA, ? died on April 7, 2007 in BAGHDAD, IRAQ. Cause: HOSTILE.
Their Story
Serving as CDR Murphy-sweet, Philip Anthony, from CALDWELL, ID, at age 42, with NAVICP MECHANISBURG PA (NWCF) MECHANICSBURG, PA, he went to Iraq with the NAVY. He did not come home.
Killed on April 7, 2007 in BAGHDAD, IRAQ ? HOSTILE ?, Murphy-sweet, Philip Anthony was one of the 4418 Americans the country lost in Operation Iraqi Freedom.
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 NAVY 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
Murphy-sweet, Philip Anthony 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.
