Springer, Lance Craig Ii
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Verified In BAGHDAD, IRAQ on March 23, 2007, the ARMY lost SGT Springer, Lance Craig Ii of FORT WORTH, TX, 23, serving with HHT, 1ST SQUADRON, 40TH CAVALRY, 4TH BRIGADE COMBAT TEAM, FORT RICHARDSON, AK. Cause: HOSTILE.
Their Story
Serving as SGT Springer, Lance Craig Ii, from FORT WORTH, TX, at age 23, with HHT, 1ST SQUADRON, 40TH CAVALRY, 4TH BRIGADE COMBAT TEAM, FORT RICHARDSON, AK, he went to Iraq with the ARMY. He did not come home.
The date recorded for his death: March 23, 2007. Location: BAGHDAD, IRAQ. Cause: 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
Springer, Lance Craig Ii 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.
