Trent, Gregory Ray
In BETHESDA, UNITED STATES on August 8, 2012, the ARMY lost MSG Trent, Gregory Ray of NORTON, MA, 38, serving with COMPANY B, 4TH BATTALION, 3RD SPECIAL FORCES GROUP (AIRBORNE), FORT BRAGG, NC. Cause: HOSTILE.
Their Story
Trent, Gregory Ray was 38 and from NORTON, MA when he joined the Active Duty, ARMY, COMPANY B, 4TH BATTALION, 3RD SPECIAL FORCES GROUP (AIRBORNE), FORT BRAGG, NC as MSG. Operation Enduring Freedom would take his life.
He did not survive OEF. The ARMY recorded his death on August 8, 2012 in BETHESDA, UNITED STATES, from HOSTILE.
In the final years of OEF, a surge had been deployed and drawn down. The Taliban had outlasted every strategy. The Afghan army the US built would collapse six years after OEF ended.
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/oef.
Explore Further
Trent, Gregory Ray was killed during Operation Enduring Freedom (from October 2001 to December 2014). The conflict concluded in December 2014. See the full roster of those killed in this conflict.
Among those documented in the same conflict: Andrews, Evander Earl, Edmunds, Jonn Joseph, Stonesifer, Kristofor Tif, Davis, Bryant Leroy.