Wood, Brett Everett
PFC Wood, Brett Everett, 19, a native of SPENCER, IN, died serving in the Active Duty, ARMY, COMPANY C, 1ST BATTALION, 5TH INFANTRY REGIMENT, 1ST SBCT, FORT WAINWRIGHT, AK, during Operation Enduring Freedom on September 9, 2011. Cause: HOSTILE.
Their Story
A Active Duty member of the ARMY ? COMPANY C, 1ST BATTALION, 5TH INFANTRY REGIMENT, 1ST SBCT, FORT WAINWRIGHT, AK ? serving as PFC, Wood, Brett Everett was 19 and came from SPENCER, IN.
The date recorded for his death: September 9, 2011. Location: MUSHAN, AFGHANISTAN. Cause: HOSTILE.
Operation Enduring Freedom began October 7, 2001 ? twenty-six days after September 11. It lasted 13 years, the longest armed conflict in US history, ending December 28, 2014. 2,356 Americans were killed across Afghanistan, the Philippines, and the Horn of Africa.
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.
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Wood, Brett Everett 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.