Vasquez, Cristian
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Verified At 20, LCPL Vasquez, Cristian of COALINGA, CA was serving with the MARINE CORPS, H&S CO, 1ST LAR BN, 1ST MAR DIV, CAMP PENDLETON, CA, when he died in AL QAIM, IRAQ on August 2, 2007. Cause: HOSTILE.
Their Story
Vasquez, Cristian was 20 and from COALINGA, CA when he joined the Active Duty, MARINE CORPS, H&S CO, 1ST LAR BN, 1ST MAR DIV, CAMP PENDLETON, CA as LCPL. Operation Iraqi Freedom would take his life.
On August 2, 2007, the MARINE CORPS lost LCPL Vasquez, Cristian in AL QAIM, IRAQ. He was 20. The MARINE CORPS 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 MARINE CORPS 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
Vasquez, Cristian 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.
