Sampler, Sonny Gene
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Verified In SAMARRA, IRAQ on July 8, 2004, the ARMY lost SPC Sampler, Sonny Gene of OKLAHOMA CITY, OK, 23, serving with HHC, 1ST BATTALION, 26 INFANTRY REGIMENT (1ID), SCHWEINFURT, GE. Cause: HOSTILE.
Their Story
From OKLAHOMA CITY, OK, SPC Sampler, Sonny Gene, serving with HHC, 1ST BATTALION, 26 INFANTRY REGIMENT (1ID), SCHWEINFURT, GE, was 23 years old when he deployed with the ARMY to Iraq.
He did not survive OIF. The ARMY recorded his death on July 8, 2004 in SAMARRA, 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 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
Sampler, Sonny Gene 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.
