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Joseph Alexander

The Department of Defense’s record of this death, as the Defense Manpower Data Center lists it in the Defense Casualty Analysis System.

The record

Name, as listed
ALEXANDER, JOSEPH
Rank
SGM
Service
ARMY
Component
NATIONAL GUARD
Unit
COMPANY C, SPECIAL TROOPS BATTALION, 256 IBCT, NEW ROADS, LA
Date of death
December 23, 2010
Place of death
LAFAYETTE, UNITED STATES
Where the incident occurred
IRAQ
Operation
Operation New Dawn
Casualty type
NON-HOSTILE/PENDING

If this record is wrong

This page reproduces the Defense Manpower Data Center’s record, which DMDC maintains; the Defense Casualty Analysis System’s contact page points to it. If this page differs from DMDC’s list for Operation New Dawn, the error is ours, and Corrections says how to tell us. The casualty type comes from the data behind that list and the operation’s totals, not from the columns the list displays.

What this data cannot show

  • This is the record the Department of Defense keeps of this death. It says who, their rank, service and unit, and when and where, and it does not say how or why. This page does not either.
  • The Department’s list marks hostile deaths. Its totals for Operation New Dawn count every death the list does not mark under "Non-Hostile/Pending Deaths", and that is what the casualty type above says.
  • The Defense Manpower Data Center revises its lists as records are completed. This record is from its list as of September 23, 2026.

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