Thrasher, Robert Brooks
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Verified SGT Thrasher, Robert Brooks, 23, a native of FOLSOM, CA, died serving in the Active Duty, ARMY, TROOP D, 2D SQUADRON, 12TH CAVALRY, FORT BLISS, TX, during Operation Iraqi Freedom on February 11, 2007. Cause: HOSTILE.
Their Story
A Active Duty member of the ARMY ? TROOP D, 2D SQUADRON, 12TH CAVALRY, FORT BLISS, TX ? serving as SGT, Thrasher, Robert Brooks was 23 and came from FOLSOM, CA.
On February 11, 2007, the ARMY lost SGT Thrasher, Robert Brooks in BAGHDAD, IRAQ. He was 23. The ARMY recorded the cause as 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
Thrasher, Robert Brooks 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.
