Milam, Charles Luke
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Verified Petty Officer Second Class Charles Luke Milam, 26, of Littleton, Colorado, was a U.S. Navy serviceman assigned to a Marine expeditionary unit. He was killed in a hostile incident in Afghanistan on September 25, 2007.
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Charles Luke Milam was a 26-year-old Petty Officer Second Class (PO2) in the United States Navy. He was from Littleton, Colorado, and was serving with the II Marine Expeditionary Force (II MEF) headquartered at Camp Lejeune, North Carolina, at the time of his death.
Milam was killed on September 25, 2007, in Afghanistan. According to the Department of Defense, he died from wounds sustained while conducting combat operations in Kunar Province, a volatile region along the Pakistan border. He was supporting Operation Enduring Freedom.
By 2007, Operation Enduring Freedom was in its sixth year. The Taliban had regrouped and intensified an insurgency, leading to a sharp increase in violence. U.S. and allied forces faced frequent attacks, including from improvised explosive devices (IEDs) and direct fire, particularly in eastern provinces like Kunar.
The Department of Defense announced his death on September 27, 2007. He was one of at least 117 U.S. service members killed in Afghanistan that year, according to casualty records. No specific public statements from family or unit members are widely documented in major news archives.
Milam is memorialized on the Afghanistan War casualty lists and at the National 9/11 Pentagon Memorial, which includes those killed in the subsequent wars. His name is listed among the 2,356 American service members who died during Operation Enduring Freedom.
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Petty Officer Second Class Charles Luke Milam was killed during Operation Enduring Freedom (2001–2014). 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.
