Pinson, Amanda Nicole
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Verified At 21, SGT Pinson, Amanda Nicole of SAINT LOUIS, MO was serving with the ARMY, 101ST SIGNAL DETACHMENT, 501ST SPEC TRP BN, (1 MEF) FORT CAMPBELL, KY, when she died in TIKRIT, IRAQ on March 16, 2006. Cause: HOSTILE.
Their Story
From SAINT LOUIS, MO, SGT Pinson, Amanda Nicole, serving with 101ST SIGNAL DETACHMENT, 501ST SPEC TRP BN, (1 MEF) FORT CAMPBELL, KY, was 21 years old when she deployed with the ARMY to Iraq.
On March 16, 2006, she died in TIKRIT, IRAQ ? HOSTILE ?. Her name entered the Defense Casualty Analysis System that day.
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 ARMY classified her death as "HOSTILE" ? a category that matters to the families who must make sense of it. Her name is documented in the Defense Casualty Analysis System at https://dcas.dmdc.osd.mil/dcas/app/conflictCasualties/oif.
Explore Further
Pinson, Amanda Nicole 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.
