Serio, Matthew Kenneth
Male
Verified From NORTH PROVIDENCE, RI, LCPL Serio, Matthew Kenneth served with the MARINE CORPS, C CO, 1ST BN, 5TH MAR, 1ST MAR DIV, CAMP PENDLETON, CA, and died on April 5, 2004 in AL ANBAR PROVINCE, IRAQ. He was 21. Cause: HOSTILE.
Their Story
Serving as LCPL Serio, Matthew Kenneth, from NORTH PROVIDENCE, RI, at age 21, with C CO, 1ST BN, 5TH MAR, 1ST MAR DIV, CAMP PENDLETON, CA, he went to Iraq with the MARINE CORPS. He did not come home.
On April 5, 2004, the MARINE CORPS lost LCPL Serio, Matthew Kenneth in AL ANBAR PROVINCE, IRAQ. He was 21. The MARINE CORPS recorded the cause as 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.
Explore Further
Serio, Matthew Kenneth 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.
