Wilson, Lee Christian
Male
Verified From CHAPEL HILL, NC, SGT Wilson, Lee Christian served with the ARMY, TROOP A, 1ST SQUADRON, 9TH CAVALRY, 4 BCT, FORT BLISS, TX, and died on September 7, 2007 in MOSUL, IRAQ. He was 30. Cause: HOSTILE.
Their Story
Serving as SGT Wilson, Lee Christian, from CHAPEL HILL, NC, at age 30, with TROOP A, 1ST SQUADRON, 9TH CAVALRY, 4 BCT, FORT BLISS, TX, he went to Iraq with the ARMY. He did not come home.
On September 7, 2007, the ARMY lost SGT Wilson, Lee Christian in MOSUL, IRAQ. He was 30. The ARMY 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 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
Wilson, Lee Christian 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.
