Witteveen, Brett Alan
Male
Verified Reserve, MARINE CORPS, A CO, 1ST BN, 24TH MAR, (RCT-6, II MEF FWD), 4TH MAR DIV, GRAND RAPIDS, MI, PFC Witteveen, Brett Alan of SHELBY, MI, 20, died in FALLUJAH, IRAQ on February 19, 2007. Cause: HOSTILE.
Their Story
Witteveen, Brett Alan was 20 and from SHELBY, MI when he joined the Reserve, MARINE CORPS, A CO, 1ST BN, 24TH MAR, (RCT-6, II MEF FWD), 4TH MAR DIV, GRAND RAPIDS, MI as PFC. Operation Iraqi Freedom would take his life.
Killed on February 19, 2007 in FALLUJAH, IRAQ ? HOSTILE ?, Witteveen, Brett Alan 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.
The MARINE CORPS 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
Witteveen, Brett Alan 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.
