Introduction

Códul Ocampo was born on March 20th of 1988 in Mexico City. He is the oldest son of two Mexican migrants who eventually came to settle in Yorba Linda, California. After high school friends would later remember Ocampo as a warm and friendly young man. In 2008 he was deployed to Iraq with the first supply battalion to Iraq but it's evident that he didn't see combat during his eight months in country. Around July 2010, Ocampo began to show signs of complex PTSD.