Wright, Brian Albert
Male
Verified On December 6, 2005, the ARMY lost SPC Wright, Brian Albert of KEENSBURG, IL in RAMADI, IRAQ. He was 19. Cause: HOSTILE.
Their Story
Serving as SPC Wright, Brian Albert, from KEENSBURG, IL, at age 19, with 135TH ENGINEER COMPANY, 876TH ENGINEER BATTALION, (2 MEF), LAWRENCEVILLE, IL, he went to Iraq with the ARMY. He did not come home.
On December 6, 2005, he died in RAMADI, IRAQ ? HOSTILE ?. His name entered the Defense Casualty Analysis System that day.
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
Wright, Brian Albert 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.
