Rockhold, Marlin Tyrone
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Verified Active Duty, ARMY, COMPANY B 3RD BATTALION 7TH INFANTRY REGIMENT, FORT STEWART, GA 31314, PFC Rockhold, Marlin Tyrone of HAMILTON, OH, 23, died in BAGHDAD, IRAQ on May 8, 2003. Cause: HOSTILE.
Their Story
Serving as PFC Rockhold, Marlin Tyrone, from HAMILTON, OH, at age 23, with COMPANY B 3RD BATTALION 7TH INFANTRY REGIMENT, FORT STEWART, GA 31314, he went to Iraq with the ARMY. He did not come home.
Killed on May 8, 2003 in BAGHDAD, IRAQ ? HOSTILE ?, Rockhold, Marlin Tyrone was one of the 4418 Americans the country lost in Operation Iraqi Freedom.
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 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
Rockhold, Marlin Tyrone 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.
