White, Kenneth Ryan
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Verified Active Duty, ARMY, HHC, 1ST BATTALION, 10TH AVIATION REGIMENT, 10TH COMBAT AVN BDE, FORT DRUM, NY, CW3 White, Kenneth Ryan of FORT COLLINS, CO, 35, died in FOB SALERNO, AFGHANISTAN on June 5, 2011. Cause: HOSTILE.
Their Story
White, Kenneth Ryan was 35 and from FORT COLLINS, CO when he joined the Active Duty, ARMY, HHC, 1ST BATTALION, 10TH AVIATION REGIMENT, 10TH COMBAT AVN BDE, FORT DRUM, NY as CW3. Operation Enduring Freedom would take his life.
Killed on June 5, 2011 in FOB SALERNO, AFGHANISTAN ? HOSTILE ?, White, Kenneth Ryan was one of the 2356 Americans the country lost in Operation Enduring Freedom.
In the final years of OEF, a surge had been deployed and drawn down. The Taliban had outlasted every strategy. The Afghan army the US built would collapse six years after OEF ended.
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
White, Kenneth Ryan 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.
