Stern, Andrew Karl
Male
Verified In AL ANBAR PROVINCE, IRAQ on September 16, 2004, the MARINE CORPS lost 1STLT Stern, Andrew Karl of GERMANTOWN, TN, 24, serving with B CO, 1ST TNK BN, RCT-1, 1ST MAR DIV, CAMP PENDLETON, CA. Cause: HOSTILE.
Their Story
Serving as 1STLT Stern, Andrew Karl, from GERMANTOWN, TN, at age 24, with B CO, 1ST TNK BN, RCT-1, 1ST MAR DIV, CAMP PENDLETON, CA, he went to Iraq with the MARINE CORPS. He did not come home.
Killed on September 16, 2004 in AL ANBAR PROVINCE, IRAQ ? HOSTILE ?, Stern, Andrew Karl was one of the 4418 Americans the country lost in Operation Iraqi Freedom.
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
Stern, Andrew Karl 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.
