Powell, Chad Wayne
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Verified From WEST MONROE, LA, CPL Powell, Chad Wayne served with the MARINE CORPS, HQ CO, 8TH MAR, (RCT-8), 2D MAR DIV, CAMP LEJEUNE, NC, and died on June 23, 2005 in FALLUJAH, IRAQ. He was 22. Cause: HOSTILE.
Their Story
Serving as CPL Powell, Chad Wayne, from WEST MONROE, LA, at age 22, with HQ CO, 8TH MAR, (RCT-8), 2D MAR DIV, CAMP LEJEUNE, NC, he went to Iraq with the MARINE CORPS. He did not come home.
He did not survive OIF. The MARINE CORPS recorded his death on June 23, 2005 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.
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Powell, Chad Wayne 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.
