Simpson, Jonathan James
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Verified In TAQADDUM, IRAQ on October 14, 2006, the MARINE CORPS lost SGT Simpson, Jonathan James of QUEBEC,, 25, serving with D CO, 1ST RECON BN, (3D RECON BN, RCT-5, I MEF FWD), CAMP PENDLETON, CA. Cause: HOSTILE.
Their Story
A Active Duty member of the MARINE CORPS ? D CO, 1ST RECON BN, (3D RECON BN, RCT-5, I MEF FWD), CAMP PENDLETON, CA ? serving as SGT, Simpson, Jonathan James was 25 and came from QUEBEC,.
On October 14, 2006, he died in TAQADDUM, IRAQ ? HOSTILE ?. His name entered the Defense Casualty Analysis System that day.
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
Simpson, Jonathan James 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.
