Overstreet, Tyler Ray
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Verified DET A, I CO, 3D BN, 24TH MAR, 4TH MAR DIV, NASHVILLE, TN, MARINE CORPS ? LCPL Overstreet, Tyler Ray (GALLATIN, TN), age 22, ? died in FALLUJAH, IRAQ on October 23, 2006. Cause: HOSTILE.
Their Story
Overstreet, Tyler Ray of GALLATIN, TN, 22 years old, served in the MARINE CORPS with DET A, I CO, 3D BN, 24TH MAR, 4TH MAR DIV, NASHVILLE, TN at the rank of LCPL ? one of the Americans deployed to Iraq.
He did not survive OIF. The MARINE CORPS recorded his death on October 23, 2006 in FALLUJAH, 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 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
Overstreet, Tyler Ray 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.
