As of Sept 05, 2021 the number of combined casualties from Operation
Enduring Freedom, Operation Iraqi Freedom and Operation New Dawn as
confirmed by US Central Command is 7015.
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The commanding officer of SEAL Team 1 was found dead
in his San Diego County home Monday, Navy officials announced
Wednesday. Cmdr. Robert Ramirez III was 47.
Foul play is not suspect in his death, which is under investigation,
Naval Special Warfare officials said.
Commander Robert Ramirez III, 47, was a
highly-decorated officer who took charge of
the Navy SEAL Team 1 (U.S Navy).
12/22/2022
Staff Sgt. Samuel D. Lecce, 32, of
Jefferson, Tenn
DOD Identifies Marine Corps Casualty
Dec. 22, 2022
The Department of Defense announced today the death of a Marine
who was supporting Operation Inherent Resolve.
Staff Sgt. Samuel D. Lecce, 32, of Jefferson, Tenn., died Dec.
19, 2022, as the result of a non-combat related incident in
Iraq. This incident is under investigation.
Lecce was assigned to the 3rd Marine Raider Battalion, Marine
Forces Special Operations Command, Camp Lejeune, North Carolina.
...Sgt. Nathan M. Hillman, 30, of Plum, Pennsylvania, was killed
Dec. 12 by a gunman at Fort Stewart, according to a statement from
the Army post. The shooting happened at the building complex for the
2nd Armored Brigade Combat Team of the 3rd Infantry Division. (U.S.
Army)...
FORT STEWART, Ga. — The Army on Tuesday said a
soldier who was fatally shot at a Georgia base was a sergeant whose
nearly eight years of military service included a deployment to
Afghanistan....
After a two-week investigation, authorities have
ruled that the death of Ronald. A. Farrell, a 70-year-old ArmyNational
Guard veteran whose body was found in a burned-out shell of
a vehicle smack in the middle of Fort
Bragg, North Carolina's training grounds, was accidental.
Three days
before Thanksgiving, Fort Bragg military police discovered
Farrell's body near Range 74, an urban operation facility.
Authorities say that it appears likely that the vehicle he was
in hit an embankment and caught fire the night before his
remains were found....
...Killed in the crash was , of New Castle, the
officials said. Shay was a 92F, Army Petroleum Supply Specialist,
assigned to the 28th Infantry Division’s Company G, 128th Brigade
Support Battalion....
WATERBURY, Conn. -- A 19-year-old who died in a crash
early Tuesday was a member of the Connecticut National
Guard who was supposed to get married Friday, according to the
adjutant general. Spc. Josue
Alicea-Tirado, of the 102nd Infantry, was identified Thursday as the
person killed in the crash....
The U.S.
Army identified the teenage soldier who died last week at Fort
Jackson. Pvt. Danielle A. Shields, an active duty soldier
in basic combat training, was found in her barracks area Friday,
Army officials said Tuesday in a news release.
Emergency personnel took her to a local hospital where she died
at 11 p.m., according to the Army. Shields, an
18-year-old from Decatur, Georgia, was assigned to Delta
Company, 2nd Battalion, 13th Infantry Regiment, according to the
release....
An 18-year-old Marine recruit died in September
after collapsing during training at Camp Pendleton,
the Marines said in a statement late Saturday.
Pfc. Javier Pong "became unconscious and unresponsive" while
"conducting scheduled training" on Sept. 27, the Marines said.
He was pronounced dead at Naval Hospital Camp Pendleton
According to a report from
local newspaper Summit Daily, the speed
glider that died in the area of Breckenridge
over the weekend has been identified as
Zacharia Bolster, 26, of Arvada. According
to a family member, Bolster was a Naval
Special Warfare Operator that deployed with
the Navy Seals.
Editor's Note: It
was originally reported that Bolster was a
Navy Seal. It has since been determined that
while he deployed with the Seals, he was not
directly part of this unit.
A 17-year-old National Guard soldier
died after she collapsed during military training at
Fort Jackson in South Carolina last weekend, a
report said. Alyssa Cahoon, who was a
private with the Pennsylvania Army National Guard,
suffered the unknown medical episode during a
training exercise on Aug. 20, Fort Jackson
officials told
WLTX. She was transported by Fort
Jackson EMS to an off-base hospital, where she died
on Thursday ...
08/21/2022
Sonar Technician (Surface) 3rd Class Nicholas Woods
Navy Confirms Name of Sailor Who Died Aboard Leyte
Gulf
20 August 2022
Sonar Technician (Surface) 3rd Class
Nicholas Woods died, Aug. 18, aboard USS Leyte Gulf (CG 55).
... Woods, a native of Virginia, joined the Navy
in 2020. After his initial recruit training, he attended Surface
Combat Systems Training Command in Great Lakes, Illinois and
San Diego, before reporting aboard Leyte Gulf in Aug. 2021. ...
The two soldiers who died while
training on a Georgia mountain range were identified Wednesday
as it was revealed they were fatally struck by a falling tree, the
Army said. The two fallen soldiers, 2nd Lt. Evan
Fitzgibbon and Staff Sgt. George Taber, and three others were hit by
the tree while on the Yonah Mountain, which is north of Atlanta,
officials said....
Body of combat medic who vanished on drive to NC
is found in the Smokies, rangers say
Alison Cutler
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UPDATE: Rangers
at Great Smoky Mountains National Park found the body of
Bryce Evans “in a remote section of the park near Balsam
Mountain, North Carolina” on Aug. 5. Rangers were joined by
“emergency responders from the National Park Service and
Cherokee Police, Fire, and Emergency Management Services. .
. in a comprehensive search of the area” where Evans’ car
had been found on Aug. 4....
A “bright, young” sailor from North Carolina was lost after
going overboard in a European sea, Navy officials said.
David L. Spearman is believed to have died
after he disappeared from the USS Arleigh Burke
on Monday, Aug. 1.
As of Aug. 4, the Navy hadn’t
recovered Spearman’s body, according to Richlyn Ivey, a
public affairs officer for U.S. Naval Forces Europe
and Africa....
Naval Academy midshipman found dead in Chilean lagoon
after an apparent hiking accident, officials say....
...Luke Gabriel Bird, 21, was hiking with a
Chilean Naval Academy student near the Salto El Agua waterfall
in Placilla, Chile, on Saturday morning when he stumbled and
fell over the waterfall, The Naval Academy said, based upon
reports from local officials...
07/18/2022
Sgt. Alex Rios Rodriguez, 52, of San Antonio, Texas
A Texas
National Guard soldier supporting Operation Lone Star died
last week in a "non-mission-related incident," according to the
National Guard.
Sgt. Alex Rios Rodriguez, 52, of San Antonio,
Texas, died last Thursday in a "non-mission related incident at
his quarters in McAllen, Texas," the Texas National Guard said
in a release. ...
Sailor Found Dead on Carrier Carl Vinson Identified
by Navy
The sailor who
was found dead on the San Diego-based aircraft carrier USS Carl
Vinson on Sunday was a 22-year-old petty officer from Oklahoma, the
Navy announced in a statement Monday.
Petty Officer 2nd Class Darren Collins was found
unresponsive onboard the ship at its homeport berth at Naval Air
Station North Island early Sunday. He was pronounced dead at 6:23
a.m., the Navy said. ...
Mackenzie Wilson, 19, was at Mountain Home air base 50 miles
south of Boise on Friday when the accident happened. Initial
reports suggested the Humvee she was in overturned....
An active-duty soldier was shot and killed during a house party in
Washington state Saturday.
US Army Sgt. Emmett Moore, 22, was shot dead by
another partygoer at the gathering inside a home in Parkland, the
Pierce County Sheriff’s Office said. ... Moore, originally from East
Point, Georgia, was stationed at Joint Base Lewis McCord in
Washington. The base confirmed his death in a statement, according
to KIRO
7 News....
Five decorated Marines killed when their 'unsafe'
MV-22B Osprey crashed in California desert
The
MV-22B Osprey crashed in Imperial County near Highway 78 and the
town of Glamis, which is 30 miles north of the Mexican border
Family and friends
confirmed Nathan Carlson's death Thursday
The U.S. Marine Corps
on Friday identified the remaining soldiers
Capt. Nicholas P. Losapio, 31, a pilot; Cpl. Seth D. Rasmuson,
21, a crew chief; Capt. John J. Sax, 33, a pilot; and Lance Cpl.
Evan A. Strickland, 19, a crew chief
Lt. Richard Bullock, a Navy pilot, died June
3 after his F/A-18E Super Hornet crashed, the Navy announced
late Sunday night.Bullock was based at Naval Air Station
Lemoore, Calif., and was assigned to Strike Fighter Squadron
(VFA) 113. At the time of his crash, Bullock was flying a
routine training mission, the Navy said in the press
release. The Super Hornet crashed around 2:30 p.m. PST near
Trona, Calif.
Emergency room staff at a Department
of Veterans Affairs hospital in Florida violated policy by
refusing to care for a veteran dying of heart failure because
they could not confirm his military service, the VA's watchdog
said in a new report this week. The
unidentified 60-year-old man died 10 hours later after being
taken to a different hospital. The VA inspector general faulted
staff at the Malcom Randall VA Medical Center in Gainesville for
having "wasted critical time" by continuing to try to identify
the man and not prioritizing immediate medical treatment....
Army veteran who vanished in 1976 identified
as murder victim, North Carolina cops say
Forensic DNA testing has revealed the man as Jimmy
Mack Brooks, a veteran who was 26 at the time of his murder nearly
50 years ago, the Chatham County Sheriff’s Office in Pittsboro said
in a May 25 news release. ...
05/19/2022
Spc. Wyne Lyndon Jacob Abonita, 22, of
Yokosuka, Japan
The US Army identified two young soldiers killed in a
horrific four-vehicle crash in Anchorage, Alaska, last week.
Spc. Wyne Lyndon Jacob Abonita, 22, of Yokosuka,
Japan, and Pvt. Valsin David Tate Jr., 23, of New Orleans, are the
two paratroopers who died in the collision on May 13, the Army said.
Both men were members of the 2nd Battalion, 377th
Parachute Field Artillery Regiment, and came to Alaska from their
respective bases in 2019....
The Army on
Thursday identified an Afghanistan War veteran who died after
being mauled by a bear at Joint
Base Elmendorf-Richardson, Alaska. Staff Sgt. Seth Michael
Plant, 30, an infantryman assigned to 3rd Battalion, 509th
Parachute Infantry Regiment, died from injuries sustained from a
bear attack Tuesday...
A young sailor on the Norfolk-based
USS Bataan has died while on the ship, the Navy says.
Airman Amare Nazir Matthew Long was found dead on the ship
on April 18, Lt. Cmdr. Jason S. Fischer, spokesman for Naval
Surface Force Atlantic said...
A former US Marine who was hired to fight alongside
Ukrainian soldiers against Russian invaders was killed this week.
Willy Joseph Cancel, 22, was being paid by a private
military contracting company to fight in Ukraine when he died on
Monday, family members told
CNN....
04/26/2022
Army Motor Transport Operator Pfc. Joseph Marquez, 20
Army Motor Transport Operator Pfc. Joseph Marquez, 20, was
killed in a 'single-vehicle incident' at the Yakima Training
Center in Washington state on Monday...
The
soldier who went missing in Maverick County has been identified
as 22-year-old Bishop E. Evans from Arlington, Texas. The
department notified the missing soldier's family on Friday
night....
A Navy service
member assigned to Explosive Ordnance Disposal Mobile Unit One died
on Sunday during training in Hawaii.
Lt. j.g. Aaron Fowler, 29, became unresponsive while
training with the Marine
Corps at Marine Corps Base Hawaii in Kanehoe Bay and was later
pronounced deceased at a hospital. ..
The Navy on Friday identified the service member who
died Wednesday in the crash of an E-2D Advanced Hawkeye in the
waters off Virginia. Lt. Hyrum Hanlon was on
the aircraft, which was assigned to the Airborne Command and Control
Squadron (VAW) 120 in Norfolk, when it went down during routine
flight operations near Wallops Island and Chincoteague, Virginia,
the Navy said....
Marine Corps identifies four service members
killed in plane crash during NATO exercise
Marines were taking part in the Cold Response
NATO drill
The U.S. Marine
Corps released the identities on Sunday of four service
members who died when their aircraft crashed during a NATO
exercise in the Arctic Circle on Friday.
The four fallen Marines, who were assigned to the
2nd Marine Air Wing, are Capt. Matthew J. Tomkiewicz of Indiana,
Capt. Ross A. Reynolds of Massachusetts, Gunnery Sgt. James W.
Speedy of Ohio, and Cpl. Jacob M. Moore of Kentucky...
Cpl. James A. Requenez was
a high performer, known for his selflessness and carrying the most
weight on ruck marches. But prior to a river
crossing during Ranger
School’s final phase in Florida in March 2021, he exercised a
rare moment of personal concern, according to witness statements
made after his drowning death that were obtained by Army Times...
A 23-year-old Fort Hood army trooper died
during a training incident at the National Training Center
in California, according to Fort
Hood Press Center. Spc. Joseph M. Meitl Jr, 23, was identified
as the trooper who died while training in Fort Irwin,
California. Fort Hood officials are still
investigating the incident....
02/21/2022
Staff Sergeant Dennis F. Melton, 27, of Waverly, Tennessee
DOD Identifies Air Force Casualty Feb. 21, 2022
The Department of Defense announced today
the death of an Airman who was deployed with the 768th
Expeditionary Air Base Squadron. Staff Sergeant Dennis F. Melton, 27, of Waverly,
Tennessee, died February 18 in a non-combat related
incident at the Nigerien Air Base 101 in Niamey, Niger.
The incident is under investigation. He was assigned to the 20th Security Forces Squadron,
Shaw Air Force Base, South Carolina. For more
information, media may contact the 20th Fighter Wing
Public Affairs at (803) 895-2019 or
20fwpublicaffairs@us.af.mil.
North Carolina Army Reservist dies after plane
crashes into truck
The National Guard said Ackley 'served honorably'
Raymond John Ackley, 43, died at the scene, the North
Carolina State Highway Patrol said. He joined North Carolina
National Guard in 2009 and served in Kuwait and Afghanistan, the Charlotte
Observer reported. ...
A Texas Army National Guard spokesperson told Fox
News Digital that Spc. Dajuan Lester Townes, 19, died in the
incident.
Townes was an Army horizontal construction engineer
who was assigned to the 272nd Engineer Company, 386th Engineer
Battalion, aligned under the 176th Engineer Brigade of the Texas
Army National Guard....
Navy identifies SEAL candidate who died after ‘Hell
Week’ training
'We extend our deepest sympathies,' Naval command says
The Navy SEAL
candidate who died after completing what’s known as "Hell Week"
training in California on
Friday was revealed as 24-year-old Kyle Mullen of Manalapan, New
Jersey,
the Navy has confirmed....
02/04/2022
Spc. Alex J. Ram, 20, of Rancho Cucamonga, California
The Department of Defense announced today the death
of a soldier who was supporting Operation Inherent Resolve.
Spc. Alex J. Ram, 20, of Rancho Cucamonga,
California, died Feb. 1, 2022, at Tell Beydar, Syria, as a result of
a non-combat related incident. The incident is under investigation.
Ram was assigned to 2nd Squadron, 1st Cavalry Regiment, 1st Stryker
Brigade Combat Team (SBCT), 4th Inf. Div., Fort Carson, Colorado.
02/01/2022
Cpl. Marcello L. Scrudato, 24, of Fishkill, New York
A Fort Bragg soldier died in a single-vehicle
crash this weekend in Sanford, according to a news release
from his command.
Cpl. Marcello L. Scrudato, 24, of Fishkill, New York, died
Saturday as a result of his injuries from the crash, the 1st
Special Forces Command news release said....
02/01/2022
Jul 1, 1985 — Here is a list of the 39 passengers
and crew held hostage in Beirut in the hijacking of TWA Flight 847.
... William J. Darras.
Reservoir Dogs
actor Michael Madsen's son Hudson, 26, took his own life at his
residence on the Hawaii barracks where he was serving, the Army
confirmed on Wednesday....
