Vacho, Nathan Jon
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Verified SSG Vacho, Nathan Jon, age 29, of LADYSMITH, WI ? Reserve, ARMY, 489TH CIVIL AFFAIRS BATTALION, KNOXVILLE, TN, ? died on May 5, 2006 in BAGHDAD, IRAQ. Cause: HOSTILE.
Their Story
Vacho, Nathan Jon of LADYSMITH, WI, 29 years old, served in the ARMY with 489TH CIVIL AFFAIRS BATTALION, KNOXVILLE, TN at the rank of SSG ? one of the Americans deployed to Iraq.
On May 5, 2006, the ARMY lost SSG Vacho, Nathan Jon in BAGHDAD, IRAQ. He was 29. 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
Vacho, Nathan Jon 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.
