Nathan B. "Nate" Bruckenthal (July 17, 1979 – April 24, 2004) was a United States Coast Guardsman who was killed in the Iraq War, becoming the first to die in wartime action since the Vietnam War. Bruckenthal and two U.S. Navy sailors were killed while intercepting a waterborne suicide attack on an offshore oil terminal off the coast of Iraq in the northern Persian Gulf in 2004.
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17 July 1979 Stony Brook, New York, United States
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Died |
24 April 2004 (aged 24) Persian Gulf
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Zodiac | Cancer |
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