Shephard, Steven Earl
Male
Verified On June 27, 2005, the ARMY lost CW2 Shephard, Steven Earl of PURCELL, OK in TAJI, IRAQ. He was 30. Cause: HOSTILE.
Their Story
Shephard, Steven Earl was 30 and from PURCELL, OK when he joined the Reserve, ARMY, COMPANY B, 3D BATTALION, 3D AVIATION REGIMENT (MNC-I), FORT BRAGG, NC as CW2. Operation Iraqi Freedom would take his life.
On June 27, 2005, the ARMY lost CW2 Shephard, Steven Earl in TAJI, IRAQ. He was 30. The ARMY 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 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
Shephard, Steven Earl 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.
