Unger, Daniel Paul
On May 25, 2004, the ARMY lost SPC Unger, Daniel Paul of EXETER, CA in FOB KALSU, IRAQ. He was 19. Cause: HOSTILE.
Their Story
A National Guard member of the ARMY ? A CO, 1ST BATTALION, 185TH MECHANIZED INFANTRY, CARNG, VISALIA, CA 93291 ? serving as SPC, Unger, Daniel Paul was 19 and came from EXETER, CA.
On May 25, 2004, the ARMY lost SPC Unger, Daniel Paul in FOB KALSU, IRAQ. He was 19. 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
Unger, Daniel Paul 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.