West, Bobby Russell
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Verified Bobby Russell West, a 23-year-old U.S. Army corporal from Beebe, Arkansas, was killed in Baghdad, Iraq, on May 30, 2006.
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Bobby Russell West was a 23-year-old soldier from Beebe, Arkansas. He served as a corporal in Company B, 1st Battalion, 22nd Infantry Regiment, based at Fort Hood, Texas.
On May 30, 2006, Corporal West was killed in Baghdad, Iraq. The Department of Defense listed the cause as hostile action, but specific details of the incident were not widely reported in national news archives.
West died during a period of intense sectarian violence in the Iraq War, also known as Operation Iraqi Freedom. The years 2005 to 2007 were the deadliest of the conflict for U.S. forces, with casualties spiking after the 2006 bombing of the Al-Askari shrine in Samarra.
According to local Arkansas media at the time, his death was reported in his hometown newspaper, The Daily Citizen. The community of Beebe was notified of the loss.
Corporal West is memorialized on the Iraq War casualty lists maintained by the Department of Defense and on several online veterans' memorials. He was one of 4,418 American service members who died during Operation Iraqi Freedom.
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Bobby Russell West was killed during Operation Iraqi Freedom (2003–2010). 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.
