Vance, Gene Arden Jr
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Verified SSG Vance, Gene Arden Jr, 38, a native of MORGANTOWN, WV, died serving in the National Guard, ARMY, SUPPORT COMPANY 2D BATTALION 19TH SPECIAL FORCES GROUP, KENOVA, WV 25530, during Operation Enduring Freedom on May 19, 2002. Cause: HOSTILE.
Their Story
Vance, Gene Arden Jr was 38 and from MORGANTOWN, WV when he joined the National Guard, ARMY, SUPPORT COMPANY 2D BATTALION 19TH SPECIAL FORCES GROUP, KENOVA, WV 25530 as SSG. Operation Enduring Freedom would take his life.
On May 19, 2002, he died in SHKIN, AFGHANISTAN ? HOSTILE ?. His name entered the Defense Casualty Analysis System that day.
Operation Enduring Freedom began October 7, 2001 ? twenty-six days after September 11. It lasted 13 years, the longest armed conflict in US history, ending December 28, 2014. 2,356 Americans were killed across Afghanistan, the Philippines, and the Horn of Africa.
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
Vance, Gene Arden Jr 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.
