Rice, Jeffrey Leon
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Verified At 24, PFC Rice, Jeffrey Leon of TROY, OH was serving with the ARMY, 584TH ENG CO, 20TH ENGINEER BATTALION, 36TH ENGINEER BRIGADE, FORT HOOD, TEXAS, when he died in KANDAHAR, AFGHANISTAN on July 19, 2012.
Their Story
Rice, Jeffrey Leon was 24 and from TROY, OH when he joined the Active Duty, ARMY, 584TH ENG CO, 20TH ENGINEER BATTALION, 36TH ENGINEER BRIGADE, FORT HOOD, TEXAS as PFC. Operation Enduring Freedom would take his life.
July 19, 2012 ? Rice, Jeffrey Leon died in KANDAHAR, AFGHANISTAN. The Department of Defense confirmed his death in 2012.
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 ARMY recorded his death in the line of duty. His name is documented in the Defense Casualty Analysis System at https://dcas.dmdc.osd.mil/dcas/app/conflictCasualties/oef.
Explore Further
Rice, Jeffrey Leon 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.
