Vasquez, Mark Daniel
From PORT HURON, MI, SSG Vasquez, Mark Daniel served with the ARMY, A COMPANY 1ST BATTALION 16TH INFANTRY, FORT RILEY, KS 66442, and died on November 8, 2003 in FALLUJAH, IRAQ. He was 35. Cause: HOSTILE.
Their Story
The ARMY, A COMPANY 1ST BATTALION 16TH INFANTRY, FORT RILEY, KS 66442, sent Vasquez, Mark Daniel of PORT HURON, MI, then 35, ? SSG ? to Iraq.
Killed on November 8, 2003 in FALLUJAH, IRAQ ? HOSTILE ?, Vasquez, Mark Daniel 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.
Source: Defense Casualty Analysis System (DCAS). Operation: Operation Iraqi Freedom. Date of death: November 8, 2003. Hometown: PORT HURON, MI.
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Vasquez, Mark Daniel 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.