Souffront, Luis Ariel
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Verified Active Duty, NAVY, NAVAL SPECIAL WARFARE DEVELOPMENT GROUP, PO1 Souffront, Luis Ariel of MIAMI, FL, 25, died in BALAD, IRAQ on February 7, 2008. Cause: HOSTILE.
Their Story
Souffront, Luis Ariel was 25 and from MIAMI, FL when he joined the Active Duty, NAVY, NAVAL SPECIAL WARFARE DEVELOPMENT GROUP as PO1. Operation Iraqi Freedom would take his life.
On February 7, 2008, he died in BALAD, 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 NAVY 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
Souffront, Luis Ariel 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.
