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Roadside bomb kills Guardsman from Pender
- The Associated Press
- Jul 31, 2006
- Jul 31, 2006
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Military deaths with Nebraska connections
As of Tuesday, 32 U.S. service members with Nebraska connections have died in Afghanistan or Iraq since the beginning of military operations following the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks, according to the Department of Defense and family members. One military-employed civilian who had Nebraska connections was also killed in Iraq.
Latest Nebraskan reported to be killed, according to Nebraska National Guard, Department of Defense or families of the victim:
Spc. Joshua Ford, 20, Pender, died Monday near An Numaniyah in south-central Iraq. An Army National Guardsman, Ford was killed by a roadside bomb that also wounded another Nebraska Guardsman.
Identifications previously reported by the Nebraska National Guard, the Department of Defense or families of the victims:
— Army Spc. Jeremy Jones of Omaha was killed in Iraq on June 27 by a roadside bomb, according to family members. The 25-year-old was serving in Iskandariyah with the 1st Battalion of the 67th Armor Regiment, which is based in Fort Hood, Texas.
-Army Reserve Pfc. Benjamin Slaven, 22, of Plymouth was killed by a roadside bomb June 9 near Kirkuk. He was serving with the 308th Transportation Co. of Lincoln.
-Marine Lance Cpl. Brent Zoucha, 19, of Clarks, died June 9 after an explosion in Anbar province. Zoucha graduated from High Plains Community High School in 2005.
-Army Sgt. Lonnie Calvin Allen, 26, of Bellevue was killed May 16 when his vehicle was hit by a roadside bomb near Baghdad, his family said. The 1998 Bellevue East graduate was serving with the Army’s 10th Mountain Division.
-Special agent Daniel J. Kuhlmeier, 30, of the Air Force Office of Special Investigations died Feb. 20 in Baghdad. According to the military, Kuhlmeier, who was assigned to a unit at Offutt Air Force Base, died when his convoy was struck by an explosive.
-Army 1st Lt. Garrison Avery, 23, of Lincoln was killed in Iraq on Feb. 1, his parents said. Avery had been stationed with the 101st Airborne Division from Fort Campbell, Ky. Avery was deployed in October and stationed south of Baghdad, said his father, Gary Avery.
-Army Capt. Joel Cahill, 34, was serving his third term in Iraq when he was killed by a roadside bomb on Nov. 6, 2005. Cahill, a Papillion La-Vista graduate, was a member of the 1st Battalion, 15th Infantry from Fort Benning, Ga.
-Army Staff Sgt. Jason Fegler, 24, was killed Nov. 4, 2005, while serving with the 101st Airborne out of Fort Campbell, Ky. He was 1999 graduate from Banner County High School.
-Army Spc. Darren Howe, 21, of Beatrice died at Brooke Army Medical Center in San Antonio on Nov. 3, 2005, from injuries he received in a roadside bomb in Iraq on Oct. 17.
-Sgt. Jason T. Palmerton, 25, of Auburn, died on July 23, 2005, in Qal’eh-Yegaz, Afghanistan, after coming under enemy fire during a foot patrol. Palmerton was a Green Beret assigned to the 1st Battalion, 3rd Special Forces Group.
-Staff Sgt. Tricia L. Jameson, 34, of Omaha was killed July 14, 2005, near Trebil, Iraq, when a roadside bomb exploded near her ambulance as it approached wounded Marines.
-U.S. Army Pfc. Eric Paul Woods, 26, of Omaha was killed by an explosion on July 9, 2005, in Iraq when he stopped to help a wounded soldier on the side of a road. Woods was assigned to G Troop, 2nd Squadron of the 3rd Armored Cavalry Regiment, based out of Fort Carson, Colo.
-U.S. Marine Sgt. Nick Nolte, a native of Falls City, Neb., died Nov. 24, 2004, at National Naval Medical Center, Bethesda, Md., from injuries received when his vehicle was hit by a roadside bomb near Baghdad.
-Lance Cpl. Shane E. Kielion, 23, of La Vista, Neb., died Nov. 15, 2004, as result of action in Al Anbar Province, Iraq. He was assigned to the 1st Marine Division based in Camp Pendleton, Calif.
-Army 1st Lt. Edward D. Iwan, 28, Albion, Neb.; died Nov. 12, 2004, in Fallujah when a grenade struck his vehicle; assigned to the Army’s 2nd Battalion, 2nd Infantry Regiment, 1st Infantry Division, Vilseck, Germany.
-Navy Petty Officer 3rd Class Eric L. Knott, 21, Grand Island; killed Sept. 4, 2004, in an attack in Iraq; assigned to Naval Mobile Construction Battalion 4, Port Hueneme, Calif.
-Sgt. 1st Class Linda Tarango-Griess, 33, of Sutton. Tarango-Griess of the Nebraska Army National Guard was killed July 11, 2004, when a roadside bomb exploded in Iraq.
-Sgt. Jeremy Fischer, 26, of Lincoln. Fischer of the Nebraska Army National Guard was killed July 11, 2004, when a roadside bomb exploded in Iraq.
-Lance Cpl. Kyle Codner, 19, of Shelton. Codner was killed May 26, 2004, along with two other Marines while conducting security and stability operations in Iraq’s Al Anbar province.
-Cpl. Matthew Henderson, 25, of Bennet. Henderson was killed with Codner and another Marine in Iraq’s Al Anbar province. Both Henderson and Codner were assigned to 1st Combat Engineer Battalion, 1st Marine Division, 1st Marine Expeditionary Force at Camp Pendleton, Calif.
-Spc. Dennis Morgan, 22, of Valentine. Morgan was killed April 17, 2004, when a roadside bomb exploded south of Baghdad. He was a member of the 153rd Engineer Battalion of Winner, S.D.
-Pvt. Noah Lee Boye, 21, of Grand Island. Boye was killed when his Marine unit came under fire near Fallujah, Iraq.
-Sgt. David McKeever, 25, of Buffalo, N.Y. McKeever, who was buried in his wife’s hometown of Kearney, was killed April 5, 2004, in ambush outside of Baghdad. McKeever was member of the Army’s 1st Armored Division.
-Sgt. Cory R. Mracek, 26, of Hay Springs, based out of Fort Bragg, N.C. Mracek was a paratrooper killed Jan. 27, 2004, when a roadside bomb exploded west of Baghdad.
-Sgt. Dennis A. Corral, 33, of Kearney. Corral, based out of Fort Riley, Kan., was assigned to Company C, 1st Engineer Battalion, 1st Brigade, 1st Infantry Division. He died Jan. 1, 2004, when traveling in a convoy to Baghdad International Airport. Officials said Corral’s vehicle went out of control and rolled over.
-Spc. James R. Wolf, 21, of Scottsbluff. An engineer assigned to the Headquarters and Headquarters Company of the 52nd Engineer Battalion of the 43rd Area Support Group, based in Fort Carson, Colo., Wolf was killed Nov. 6, 2003, in Mosul, Iraq, when a homemade bomb exploded near his convoy.
-Staff Sgt. Daniel Bader, 28, of York. Assigned to Tiger Squadron, 3rd Armored Cavalry Regiment, Bader was one of 15 U.S. soldiers killed Nov. 2, 2003, in an attack on a CH-47 Chinook helicopter near Fallujah, Iraq.
-Staff Sgt. Christopher W. Swisher, 26, of Lincoln. Assigned to the 2nd Armored Cavalry Regiment, Swisher was one of two soldiers killed when their patrol was ambushed and hit by small-arms fire and rocket-propelled grenades on Oct. 9, 2003, in Baghdad.
-Petty Officer 3rd Class David J. Moreno, 26, of Gering. Assigned to the 4th Marine Division, Moreno died July 17, 2003, in Iraq from an accidental gunshot wound. He was a Navy medic.
-Spc. Nathaniel A. Caldwell, 27, of Omaha. Assigned to the 404th Air Support Battalion, 4th Infantry Division, Cardwell was killed May 21, 2003, when his vehicle rolled over in Baghdad. He was an Army tank mechanic.
-Capt. Travis A. Ford, 30, of Ogallala. Assigned to the Marine Light Attack Helicopter Squadron-267, Marine Aircraft Group 39, Ford was killed on April 4, 2003, when his helicopter crashed near Ali Aziziyal in Iraq.
-Sgt. Philip J. Svitak, 31, of Fremont. Svitak was killed March 4, 2002, when the helicopter he was riding in was shot down in Afghanistan. Svitak was an aircraft repairman with the 160th Special Operations Aviation Regiment of Fort Campbell, Ky.
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Sgt. Joshua Ford, a 20-year-old Nebraska National Guardsman from Pender, was killed Monday in Iraq.
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Military deaths with Nebraska connections
As of Tuesday, 32 U.S. service members with Nebraska connections have died in Afghanistan or Iraq since the beginning of military operations following the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks, according to the Department of Defense and family members. One military-employed civilian who had Nebraska connections was also killed in Iraq.
Latest Nebraskan reported to be killed, according to Nebraska National Guard, Department of Defense or families of the victim:
Spc. Joshua Ford, 20, Pender, died Monday near An Numaniyah in south-central Iraq. An Army National Guardsman, Ford was killed by a roadside bomb that also wounded another Nebraska Guardsman.
Identifications previously reported by the Nebraska National Guard, the Department of Defense or families of the victims:
— Army Spc. Jeremy Jones of Omaha was killed in Iraq on June 27 by a roadside bomb, according to family members. The 25-year-old was serving in Iskandariyah with the 1st Battalion of the 67th Armor Regiment, which is based in Fort Hood, Texas.
-Army Reserve Pfc. Benjamin Slaven, 22, of Plymouth was killed by a roadside bomb June 9 near Kirkuk. He was serving with the 308th Transportation Co. of Lincoln.
-Marine Lance Cpl. Brent Zoucha, 19, of Clarks, died June 9 after an explosion in Anbar province. Zoucha graduated from High Plains Community High School in 2005.
-Army Sgt. Lonnie Calvin Allen, 26, of Bellevue was killed May 16 when his vehicle was hit by a roadside bomb near Baghdad, his family said. The 1998 Bellevue East graduate was serving with the Army’s 10th Mountain Division.
-Special agent Daniel J. Kuhlmeier, 30, of the Air Force Office of Special Investigations died Feb. 20 in Baghdad. According to the military, Kuhlmeier, who was assigned to a unit at Offutt Air Force Base, died when his convoy was struck by an explosive.
-Army 1st Lt. Garrison Avery, 23, of Lincoln was killed in Iraq on Feb. 1, his parents said. Avery had been stationed with the 101st Airborne Division from Fort Campbell, Ky. Avery was deployed in October and stationed south of Baghdad, said his father, Gary Avery.
-Army Capt. Joel Cahill, 34, was serving his third term in Iraq when he was killed by a roadside bomb on Nov. 6, 2005. Cahill, a Papillion La-Vista graduate, was a member of the 1st Battalion, 15th Infantry from Fort Benning, Ga.
-Army Staff Sgt. Jason Fegler, 24, was killed Nov. 4, 2005, while serving with the 101st Airborne out of Fort Campbell, Ky. He was 1999 graduate from Banner County High School.
-Army Spc. Darren Howe, 21, of Beatrice died at Brooke Army Medical Center in San Antonio on Nov. 3, 2005, from injuries he received in a roadside bomb in Iraq on Oct. 17.
-Sgt. Jason T. Palmerton, 25, of Auburn, died on July 23, 2005, in Qal’eh-Yegaz, Afghanistan, after coming under enemy fire during a foot patrol. Palmerton was a Green Beret assigned to the 1st Battalion, 3rd Special Forces Group.
-Staff Sgt. Tricia L. Jameson, 34, of Omaha was killed July 14, 2005, near Trebil, Iraq, when a roadside bomb exploded near her ambulance as it approached wounded Marines.
-U.S. Army Pfc. Eric Paul Woods, 26, of Omaha was killed by an explosion on July 9, 2005, in Iraq when he stopped to help a wounded soldier on the side of a road. Woods was assigned to G Troop, 2nd Squadron of the 3rd Armored Cavalry Regiment, based out of Fort Carson, Colo.
-U.S. Marine Sgt. Nick Nolte, a native of Falls City, Neb., died Nov. 24, 2004, at National Naval Medical Center, Bethesda, Md., from injuries received when his vehicle was hit by a roadside bomb near Baghdad.
-Lance Cpl. Shane E. Kielion, 23, of La Vista, Neb., died Nov. 15, 2004, as result of action in Al Anbar Province, Iraq. He was assigned to the 1st Marine Division based in Camp Pendleton, Calif.
-Army 1st Lt. Edward D. Iwan, 28, Albion, Neb.; died Nov. 12, 2004, in Fallujah when a grenade struck his vehicle; assigned to the Army’s 2nd Battalion, 2nd Infantry Regiment, 1st Infantry Division, Vilseck, Germany.
-Navy Petty Officer 3rd Class Eric L. Knott, 21, Grand Island; killed Sept. 4, 2004, in an attack in Iraq; assigned to Naval Mobile Construction Battalion 4, Port Hueneme, Calif.
-Sgt. 1st Class Linda Tarango-Griess, 33, of Sutton. Tarango-Griess of the Nebraska Army National Guard was killed July 11, 2004, when a roadside bomb exploded in Iraq.
-Sgt. Jeremy Fischer, 26, of Lincoln. Fischer of the Nebraska Army National Guard was killed July 11, 2004, when a roadside bomb exploded in Iraq.
-Lance Cpl. Kyle Codner, 19, of Shelton. Codner was killed May 26, 2004, along with two other Marines while conducting security and stability operations in Iraq’s Al Anbar province.
-Cpl. Matthew Henderson, 25, of Bennet. Henderson was killed with Codner and another Marine in Iraq’s Al Anbar province. Both Henderson and Codner were assigned to 1st Combat Engineer Battalion, 1st Marine Division, 1st Marine Expeditionary Force at Camp Pendleton, Calif.
-Spc. Dennis Morgan, 22, of Valentine. Morgan was killed April 17, 2004, when a roadside bomb exploded south of Baghdad. He was a member of the 153rd Engineer Battalion of Winner, S.D.
-Pvt. Noah Lee Boye, 21, of Grand Island. Boye was killed when his Marine unit came under fire near Fallujah, Iraq.
-Sgt. David McKeever, 25, of Buffalo, N.Y. McKeever, who was buried in his wife’s hometown of Kearney, was killed April 5, 2004, in ambush outside of Baghdad. McKeever was member of the Army’s 1st Armored Division.
-Sgt. Cory R. Mracek, 26, of Hay Springs, based out of Fort Bragg, N.C. Mracek was a paratrooper killed Jan. 27, 2004, when a roadside bomb exploded west of Baghdad.
-Sgt. Dennis A. Corral, 33, of Kearney. Corral, based out of Fort Riley, Kan., was assigned to Company C, 1st Engineer Battalion, 1st Brigade, 1st Infantry Division. He died Jan. 1, 2004, when traveling in a convoy to Baghdad International Airport. Officials said Corral’s vehicle went out of control and rolled over.
-Spc. James R. Wolf, 21, of Scottsbluff. An engineer assigned to the Headquarters and Headquarters Company of the 52nd Engineer Battalion of the 43rd Area Support Group, based in Fort Carson, Colo., Wolf was killed Nov. 6, 2003, in Mosul, Iraq, when a homemade bomb exploded near his convoy.
-Staff Sgt. Daniel Bader, 28, of York. Assigned to Tiger Squadron, 3rd Armored Cavalry Regiment, Bader was one of 15 U.S. soldiers killed Nov. 2, 2003, in an attack on a CH-47 Chinook helicopter near Fallujah, Iraq.
-Staff Sgt. Christopher W. Swisher, 26, of Lincoln. Assigned to the 2nd Armored Cavalry Regiment, Swisher was one of two soldiers killed when their patrol was ambushed and hit by small-arms fire and rocket-propelled grenades on Oct. 9, 2003, in Baghdad.
-Petty Officer 3rd Class David J. Moreno, 26, of Gering. Assigned to the 4th Marine Division, Moreno died July 17, 2003, in Iraq from an accidental gunshot wound. He was a Navy medic.
-Spc. Nathaniel A. Caldwell, 27, of Omaha. Assigned to the 404th Air Support Battalion, 4th Infantry Division, Cardwell was killed May 21, 2003, when his vehicle rolled over in Baghdad. He was an Army tank mechanic.
-Capt. Travis A. Ford, 30, of Ogallala. Assigned to the Marine Light Attack Helicopter Squadron-267, Marine Aircraft Group 39, Ford was killed on April 4, 2003, when his helicopter crashed near Ali Aziziyal in Iraq.
-Sgt. Philip J. Svitak, 31, of Fremont. Svitak was killed March 4, 2002, when the helicopter he was riding in was shot down in Afghanistan. Svitak was an aircraft repairman with the 160th Special Operations Aviation Regiment of Fort Campbell, Ky.
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