Trost, Marvin Lee Iii
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Verified SSG Trost, Marvin Lee Iii, age 28, of GOSHEN, IN ? Active Duty, ARMY, B COMPANY, 1ST BN, 506TH INFANTRY, 2D INF DIV, APO AP 96251 (CAMP GREAVES), ? died on December 5, 2004 in HABBANIYAH, IRAQ. Cause: HOSTILE.
Their Story
Serving as SSG Trost, Marvin Lee Iii, from GOSHEN, IN, at age 28, with B COMPANY, 1ST BN, 506TH INFANTRY, 2D INF DIV, APO AP 96251 (CAMP GREAVES), he went to Iraq with the ARMY. He did not come home.
On December 5, 2004, the ARMY lost SSG Trost, Marvin Lee Iii in HABBANIYAH, IRAQ. He was 28. 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
Trost, Marvin Lee Iii 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.
