Wallace, Matthew Phillip
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Verified CPL Wallace, Matthew Phillip, 22, a native of LEXINGTON PARK, MD, died serving in the Active Duty, ARMY, TROOP A, 1ST SQUADRON, 10TH CAVALRY, FORT HOOD, TEXAS, during Operation Iraqi Freedom on July 21, 2006. Cause: HOSTILE.
Their Story
From LEXINGTON PARK, MD, CPL Wallace, Matthew Phillip, serving with TROOP A, 1ST SQUADRON, 10TH CAVALRY, FORT HOOD, TEXAS, was 22 years old when he deployed with the ARMY to Iraq.
July 21, 2006 ? Wallace, Matthew Phillip died in LANDSTUHL, GERMANY, HOSTILE. The Department of Defense confirmed his death in 2006.
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
Wallace, Matthew Phillip 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.
