Tayaotao, Michael Estigo
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Verified In IVO HADITHAH, IRAQ on August 9, 2007, the MARINE CORPS lost SGT Tayaotao, Michael Estigo of SUNNYVALE, CA, 27, serving with EOD CO, 7TH ESB (-), 1ST MLG, CAMP PENDLETON, CA. Cause: HOSTILE.
Their Story
SGT Tayaotao, Michael Estigo, 27 years old, grew up in SUNNYVALE, CA and served as Active Duty in the MARINE CORPS with EOD CO, 7TH ESB (-), 1ST MLG, CAMP PENDLETON, CA during Operation Iraqi Freedom.
Killed on August 9, 2007 in IVO HADITHAH, IRAQ ? HOSTILE ?, Tayaotao, Michael Estigo 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
Tayaotao, Michael Estigo 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.
