Young, Ryan Clint
On December 2, 2003, the ARMY lost SGT Young, Ryan Clint of CORONA, CA in WASHINGTON, UNITED STATES. He was 21. Cause: HOSTILE.
Their Story
Young, Ryan Clint was 21 and from CORONA, CA when he joined the Active Duty, ARMY, COMPANY A, 1ST BATTALION, 16TH INFANTRY, FORT RILEY, KS 66442 as SGT. Operation Iraqi Freedom would take his life.
He did not survive OIF. The ARMY recorded his death on December 2, 2003 in WASHINGTON, UNITED STATES, from 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
Young, Ryan Clint 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.