Cmdr. Philip A. Murphy-Sweet
Hometown: Caldwell, Idaho, U.S.
Age: 42 years old
Died: April 7, 2007 in Operation Iraqi Freedom.
Unit: Navy, Joint Contracting Command, Multi-National Force – Iraq/Naval Inventory Control Point, Mechanicsburg, Pa.
Incident: Killed by enemy action in Baghdad.
Related Links:
Iraqi bomb kills Hampden Twp.-based officer, father of 3 (Harrisburg Patriot-News, April 10, 2007)
Officer killed in Iraq was due to return home soon (Carlisle Sentinel, April 9, 2007)
Naval commander from Pennsylvania is killed in Iraq (York Dispatch, April 11, 2007)
Military community shares grief of first Iraq-war casualties (Seattle Times, April 11, 2007)
3 sailors from Whidbey killed in Iraq (Seattle Post-Intelligencer, April 9, 2007)
Whidbey sailors' deaths bring war close to home (Everett Herald, April 11, 2007)
