Pier, Noah Miles
In NAWA, HELMAND PROVINCE on February 16, 2010, the MARINE CORPS lost LCPL Pier, Noah Miles of CHARLOTTE, NC, 25, serving with B CO, 1/3, 3D MARDIV (RCT-7, MEB-A), KANEOHE BAY, HI. Cause: HOSTILE.
Their Story
Pier, Noah Miles was 25 and from CHARLOTTE, NC when he joined the Active Duty, MARINE CORPS, B CO, 1/3, 3D MARDIV (RCT-7, MEB-A), KANEOHE BAY, HI as LCPL. Operation Enduring Freedom would take his life.
Killed on February 16, 2010 in NAWA, HELMAND PROVINCE ? HOSTILE ?, Pier, Noah Miles was one of the 2356 Americans the country lost in Operation Enduring Freedom.
In the final years of OEF, a surge had been deployed and drawn down. The Taliban had outlasted every strategy. The Afghan army the US built would collapse six years after OEF ended.
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/oef.
Explore Further
Pier, Noah Miles 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.