Vallejo, Robert Ii
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Verified 1LT Vallejo, Robert Ii, 28, a native of RICHLAND HILLS, TX, died serving in the National Guard, ARMY, COMPANY B, 2D BATTALION, 149TH AVIATION, AUSTIN, TX, during Operation Iraqi Freedom on September 17, 2008.
Their Story
Serving as 1LT Vallejo, Robert Ii, from RICHLAND HILLS, TX, at age 28, with COMPANY B, 2D BATTALION, 149TH AVIATION, AUSTIN, TX, he went to Iraq with the ARMY. He did not come home.
Killed on September 17, 2008 in TALLIL, IRAQ, Vallejo, Robert Ii was one of the 4418 Americans the country lost in Operation Iraqi Freedom.
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 recorded his death in the line of duty. His name is documented in the Defense Casualty Analysis System at https://dcas.dmdc.osd.mil/dcas/app/conflictCasualties/oif.
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Vallejo, Robert Ii 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.
