Sutter, Michael John
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Verified In BAQUBAH, IRAQ on December 26, 2003, the ARMY lost SSG Sutter, Michael John of TINLEY PARK, IL, 28, serving with 745TH ORDNANCE DETACHMENT, CAMP GRAYLING, GRAYLING, MI 49739. Cause: HOSTILE.
Their Story
Sutter, Michael John was 28 and from TINLEY PARK, IL when he joined the National Guard, ARMY, 745TH ORDNANCE DETACHMENT, CAMP GRAYLING, GRAYLING, MI 49739 as SSG. Operation Iraqi Freedom would take his life.
On December 26, 2003, he died in BAQUBAH, 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 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
Sutter, Michael John 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.
