Oakes, Curtis Allen
From ATHENS, OH, SSG Oakes, Curtis Allen served with the ARMY, HHT, 1ST SQUADRON, 61ST CAVALRY REGIMENT, 4 BCT, FORT CAMPBELL, KY, and died on November 29, 2010 in PACHIR WA AGAM DISTRICT, AFGHANISTAN. He was 29. Cause: HOSTILE.
Their Story
Oakes, Curtis Allen of ATHENS, OH, 29 years old, served in the ARMY with HHT, 1ST SQUADRON, 61ST CAVALRY REGIMENT, 4 BCT, FORT CAMPBELL, KY at the rank of SSG ? one of the Americans deployed to Afghanistan, Philippines, Horn of Africa.
On November 29, 2010, he died in PACHIR WA AGAM DISTRICT, AFGHANISTAN ? HOSTILE ?. His name entered the Defense Casualty Analysis System that day.
Operation Enduring Freedom began October 7, 2001 ? twenty-six days after September 11. It lasted 13 years, the longest armed conflict in US history, ending December 28, 2014. 2,356 Americans were killed across Afghanistan, the Philippines, and the Horn of Africa.
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/oef.
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Oakes, Curtis Allen was killed during Operation Enduring Freedom (from October 2001 to December 2014). The conflict concluded in December 2014. See the full roster of those killed in this conflict.
Among those documented in the same conflict: Andrews, Evander Earl, Edmunds, Jonn Joseph, Stonesifer, Kristofor Tif, Davis, Bryant Leroy.