Capt. Nathan S. Dalley 27 Headquarters Company, 2nd Brigade, 1st Armored Division Kaysville, Utah Died from a non-hostile gunshot wound on November 17, 2003, in Baghdad, Iraq. A captain is killed by a "non-hostile" gunshot.
http://www.truthout.org/cgi-bin/artman/exec/view.cgi/7/4000
Chris Dana came home from the war in Iraq in 2005 and slipped into a mental abyss so quietly that neither his family nor the Montana Army National Guard noticed. As Gary Dana was collecting his dead son's belongings, he found a letter indicating that the National Guard was discharging his son under what are known as other-than-honorable conditions. The move was due to his skipping drills, which his family said was brought on by the mental strain of his service in Iraq.
Capt. Patrick D. Damon 41 240th Engineer Group, Maine Army National Guard Falmouth, Maine Died from a non-combat related cause in Bagram, Afghanistan, on June 15, 2006
CHRIS DANA 23 MONTANA GUNSHOT FORT HARRISON - 3/4/2007It took several months of pushing, but finally, Chris Dana was ready.The 23-year-old veteran of the Iraq war, who served with the 163rd Infantry Battalion, Montana National Guard, agreed to see a counselor for post-combat stress. Members of his family, concerned for months about his change in behavior, believed they were starting to get through to him. Their son and brother promised to seek the help they all knew he so desperately needed.Then Dana canceled the appointment. He began screening his calls. He stopped showing up at drill with the National Guard. He quit his job at Target, cleaned his car and the trailer he shared with a friend. And then, on March 4, he shut himself into his bedroom, put a blanket over his head, and shot himself.
http://www.missoulian.com/articles/2007/03/10/news/mtregional/news05.txtNot counted
Spc. Shawn M. Davies 22 Battery C, 4th Battalion, 5th Air Defense Artillery Regiment, 1st Cavalry Division Hopewell, Pennsylvania Died of a non-combat related illness in Baghdad, Iraq, on July 8, 2004
Machinist Mate Fireman Bryant L. Davis 2001-11-07 20 Chicago Illinois USS Kitty Hawk Navy Bryant accidentally drowned in the Arabian Sea
Davis fell overboard on November 7, 2001, and was declared deceased after more than two days of search and rescue efforts were unsuccessful.
http://afghanistan.pigstye.net/wd.php?sort=unit
Maj. Gloria D. Davis 47 Assigned to the Defense Security Assistance Agency St. Louis, Missouri Died from a non-combat related incident in Baghdad, Iraq, on December 12, 2006
Master Sgt. Jefferson Donald Davis 2001-12-05 39 Watauga Tennessee Company D, 2nd Battalion, 5th Special Forces Group (Airborne) Army One of three soldiers killed when a 2,000-pound satellite-guided bomb was targeted incorrectly and hit near his position north of Kandahar, Afghanistan, on December 5, 2001 USA
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Pfc. Justin R. Davis, 19, of Gaithersburg, Md., died on June 25 in eastern Kunar province when he came in contact with indirect fire a term used for mortar shelling while on patrol during combat operations.The circumstances of the soldier’s death are under investigation as a possible friendly-fire incident.
http://www.armytimes.com/legacy/new/1-292925-1925553.php
PFC Nicholas A. Davis Born April 27, 1986 - July 13, 2005 Dates of service: Jan. 20, 2004 - July 13, 2005 US Army He died at Ft. Knox, KY From his Nick definately died from the results of PTSD. He fell 1250 feet when his parachute failed and was only treated for a broken ankle. From what I can tell, he never received a CAT scan or MRI to check for further damage. He had flashbacks and nightmares and was punished for asking for help. On his final day he asked for help several times and others asked for help for him. Those around him were concerned for him but those in charge did nothing. And that evening he was dead. The records tell how his personality changed for the worse, he became a different person. He also began suffering from tremors and toward the end of his life he began having siezures. Several witnesses put that into their statements...that his superiors did not help him they "put him into a room until he calmed down". He was being discharged and coming home in less than 24 hours. He was found hung by a shoelace on the hook of a latrine stall door.
http://www.killingourown.homestead.com/Not counted
Spc. Richard Davis Days after returning in July 2003 from a tour of duty in Iraq, five soldiers from the 3rd Infantry Division went out for a night of drinking in Columbus, Ga. One of them, Spc. Richard Davis, was beaten and stabbed to death and his body burned in an attempt to cover the crime. The case is now nearly resolved, The Associated Press reported.
http://www.armytimes.com/legacy/new/0-ARMYPAPER-1511540.phpNot counted
Sgt. Kyle Dayton
22
2nd Battalion, 504th Parachute Infantry Regiment, 1st Brigade Combat Team, 82nd Airborne Division
El Dorado Hills, California
Died of injuries suffered from a non-combat related incident in Ashwah, Iraq, on December 3, 2007
James E. Dean Iraq Vet Commits Suicide by Inducing Police Action Veteran Slain in Police Standoff Was Devastated by Call-Up, Family Says By Megan GreenwellWashington Post Staff WriterFriday, December 29, 2006; B01 James E. Dean's first Christmas as a married man was supposed to be a joyous affair. The man everyone called Jamie had received a diagnosis of depression, but things were looking up. He frequently told Muriel, his wife of four months, that she was the best thing that had ever happened to him. He had plans to celebrate his 29th birthday two days before the holiday. His parents and grandmother, to whom he was extremely close, lived just a few miles away in the same St. Mary's County town -- perfect for sharing Christmas dinner and opening presents together. But everything good in Dean's life had been overshadowed by a letter he received three weeks earlier. The letter, from U.S. Army headquarters, instructed him to report to Fort Benning, Ga., on Jan. 14. From there, he was likely to be sent to Iraq. Dean had already fought in one war, serving 12 months as a sergeant, leading a small infantry unit on the front lines in Afghanistan. Army records show that he was an excellent soldier, and he had a fistful of awards to prove it: for service in defense of the nation, good conduct and outstanding marksmanship with rifles and grenades. He was such a good soldier, in fact, an Army spokesman said, that the military needed him back just three weeks after his first Christmas with his wife. He couldn't stomach the thought. His post-traumatic stress disorder, which was diagnosed shortly after he returned from Afghanistan, became worse immediately after he received the letter -- and so did his drinking and his rages, family members said. He would break down in front of his wife, telling her over and over that nobody knew what it had been like. "The next time you see me, it's going to be in a body bag," she said he told her as he walked out of their house for the last time.
On Christmas night, Dean drove to his childhood home on the farm where his parents still live. He took up one of his hunting guns and called his family; he said he was going to kill himself. Fourteen agonizing hours later, he was dead -- not by his own bullet but by that of a Maryland state trooper.
http://www.differentdrummercafe.org/iraqvetsuicide.htmlNot counted
ROBERT DECOUTEAUX 24 NY GUNSHOT8/1/2005 Decouteaux died Saturday from a self-inflicted gunshot wound. He'd been airlifted from his home to a Temple hospital for emergency surgery, but died while doctors tried to save his life.
http://www.kcentv.com/news/local-article-arch.php?nid=7692Not counted
Spc. Michael S. Deem 35 Company D, Special Troops Battalion, 3rd Infantry Division Rockledge, Florida Died of non-combat related injuries in Baghdad, Iraq, on February 24, 2005
Spc. Robert W. Defazio 21 23rd Ordnance Company, 101st Ordnance Battalion, 29th Support Group West Babylon, New York Died of non-combat related injuries in Kandahar, Afghanistan, on April 24, 2005
Pvt. Jason L. Deibler 20 Company A, 1st Battalion, 6th Infantry Regiment, 2nd Brigade, 1st Armored Division Coeburn, Virginia Killed on May 4, 2003, by a non-combat weapon discharge in Kuwait
Ken Dennis (father) His son didn't see 23. On March 21, exactly one year after the first Marine combat deaths in Iraq, the wiry 6-foot-1 soldier who had been a classroom cut-up, a devotee of heavy philosophical tomes and a proud patriot tattooed with the Marine Corps insignia hanged himself from a showerhead in the bathroom of his Renton apartment.
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UK
Signaller Paul William Didsbury 18 21st Signal Regiment (Air Support) Blackpool, England Died of a non-hostile gunshot wound in Basra, Iraq, on June 29, 2005
Netherlands
Dijkstra Sergeant Netherlands Royal Dutch Army10/11/06 Non-hostile - suicide
Pfc. James R. Dillon Jr 2003-03-13 19 Grove City Pennsylvania 3rd Light Armoured Reconnaissance Battalion, 1st Marine Division Marines James died as a result of a self inflicted gun shot wound in Kuwait.
http://afghanistan.pigstye.net/wd.php?sort=unit
Romania
Cpl. Lili Dobre 28 280th Infantry Battalion, Romanian Army Romania Dobre shot himself in the head in a tent at Camp Mittica in Nasiriya, Iraq, on March 14, 2006. He was taken to a hospital in Kuwait City, Kuwait, where he died on March 25, 2006
UK
Pvt. Mark Stephen Dobson 41 B (Green Howards) Company, The Tyne-Tees Regiment, British Territorial Army County Durham, England Dobson was found dead of a non-hostile cause in his quarters at Basra Air Station in Basra, Iraq, on March 28, 2005. (from below the 41-year-old from Darlington would kill himself in his Basra bed. His suicide note described the 'evil world' encountered in Iraq. 'Sorry to let you down lads,' it concluded.)
Sgt. Michael E. Dooley of the 3rd Armored Cavalry Regiment August 20, 2004 Report: Two Carson soldiers committed suicide in Iraq Associated Press FORT CARSON, Colo. Two Fort Carson soldiers who died in Iraq took their own lives, according to Army reports released this week.
http://www.armytimes.com/legacy/new/1-292925-314145.phpBut on CNN.com the report was this way
Sgt. Michael E. Dooley
23
B Troop, 1st Squadron, 3rd Armored Cavalry Regiment
Pulaski, Virginia
He was manning a checkpoint in Al Asad, Iraq, on June 8, 2003, when a vehicle approached and two people got out requesting a medic for a sick friend. Immediately following the request for help, they opened fire, killing Dooleyhttp://www.cnn.com/SPECIALS/2003/iraq/forces/casualties/page2.html
Staff Sgt. Aurelio A. Dudley, 39, of Panama City, Panama, died Tuesday after completing the run. He began having trouble breathing when he finished, and other soldiers training with Dudley called for emergency help. October 2005
http://www.armytimes.com/legacy/new/1-292925-1206041.php
Pfc. Joseph J. Duenas
23
Company C, 1st Battalion, 327th Infantry, 1st Brigade Combat Team, 101 Airborne Division
Mesa, Arizona
Died of non-combat related injuries while returning from combat operations in Kirkuk Province, Iraq, on March 30, 2006
Pfc. Amy A. Duerksen 19 Company D, 4th Combat Support Battalion, 1st Brigade, 4th Infantry Division Aberdeen Proving Ground, Maryland Died of a non-combat related injury in Baghdad, Iraq, on March 11, 2006 Pfc. Amy A. Duerksen was remembered Friday as a soldier who loved her country and championed its freedoms.About 200 people attended Duerksen's funeral at a church in Temple while more than 120 members of the Patriot Guard Riders, a motorcycle group, gathered outside to counter the protest of six members of the Westboro Baptist Church of Topeka, Kan The Kansas protesters claim the deaths of soldiers in Iraq are divine punishment for America's toleration of homosexuals. The motorcycle riders try to shield families from the protesters.Duerksen, 19, died March 11 in Iraq, the Temple Daily Telegram reported."The two themes of freedom and justice were colossal for her," the Rev. Shannon Soard said in remarks prepared for delivery at the service, the newspaper reported.Soard said Duerksen "had a kindness and gentleness for people that caused you to warm to her quickly. Warm smiles, encouraging words and affectionate hugs were the order of the day with Amy. She loved people, and they knew it."
http://iraq.pigstye.net/article.php/DuerksenAmyA
Cynthia Dunn, 27, was driving on a bridge in Augusta, Ga., when she lost control of her car about 1 a.m. The vehicle hit a concrete retaining wall, drove on top of it and then went airborne, said a deputy sheriff. October 9, 2004
http://www.armytimes.com/legacy/new/0-ARMYPAPER-452264.php
Sgt. Jeannette T. Dunn 44 15th Sustainment Brigade, 1st Cavalry Division Bronx, New York Died of injuries suffered from a non-combat related injury in Taji, Iraq, on November 26, 2006
Staff Sgt. Joan J. Duran
24
5th Squadron, 73rd Cavalry Regiment, 3rd Brigade Combat Team, 82nd Airborne Division
Roxbury, Massachusetts
Died of injuries suffered from a non-combat related incident in Iraq on August 10, 2007
Ciara Durkin
Mystery surrounds death of soldier
Quincy woman is called a noncombat casualty
By Noah Bierman, Globe Staff October 2, 2007
The Massachusetts National Guard soldier from Quincy who died in Afghanistan Friday was found with a single bullet in her head lying near her church on a secure military base, her family said yesterday after a briefing from Army officials.
The Department of Defense said in a statement yesterday that Ciara Durkin's injuries came from a "non-combat related incident" that is under investigation. The statement contradicts a Sunday statement from the Massachusetts Army National Guard that said Durkin, an Army specialist, was killed in action. A guard spokesman said the term was meant to imply that Durkin was deployed in Afghanistan at the time of her death.
"We're completely in the dark," said Pierce Durkin, the soldier's 28-year-old brother. "Patience is probably dissipating."
Cpl Ainsworth Dyer 2002-04-18 24 Montreal Quebec 3rd Battalion, Princess Patricia s Canadian Light Infantry Canadian Army Ainsworth was one of four soldiers killed in a freindly fire accident near Kandahar when a bomb was dropped on their location.
http://afghanistan.pigstye.net/wd.php?sort=unit
Staff Sgt. Richard S. Eaton Jr. 37 323rd Military Intelligence Battalion, Army Reserves Guilford, Connecticut Died in Ramadi, Iraq, after a fellow soldier tried to wake him and noticed he was not breathing on August 12, 2003 A staff sergeant dies in his sleep from fluid buildup in his lungs. http://www.truthout.org/cgi-bin/artman/exec/view.cgi/7/4000
Pvt. James H. Ebbers 19 551st Military Police Company Tinley Park, Illinois Died of a non-hostile gunshot wound in Djibouti, Africa, on October 14, 2002
Pfc. Christopher M. Eckhardt 19 4th Battalion, 42nd Field Artillery, 1st Brigade, 4th Infantry Division Phoenix, Arizona Died of a non-combat related cause in Taji, Iraq, on May 3, 2006 AP -- FORT HOOD, Texas -- The death of a Phoenix soldier in Iraq is under investigation, the Department of Defense said Friday. Pfc. Christopher M. Eckhardt, 19, died Wednesday from a "non-combat related cause" in Taji, according to a statement from the military. No other details were provided. Eckhardt was assigned to the 4th Battalion, 42nd Field Artillery, 1st Brigade, 4th Infantry Division in Fort Hood.
http://iraq.pigstye.net/article.php/EckhardtChristopherM
Sgt. 1st Class Amos C. Edwards, Jr. 41 1st Battalion, 118th Field Artillery Regiment, 48th Brigade Combat Team, Georgia Army National Guard Savannah, Georgia Died of a non-combat related cause in Rutba, Iraq, on February 17, 2006
Staff Sgt. Mark O. Edwards 40 Headquarters Troop, 2nd Squadron, 278th Armored Cavalry Regiment, Tennessee Army National Guard Unicoi, Tennessee Died from a non-combat related cause at his forward operating base near Tuz, Iraq, on June 9, 2005
Spc. Andrew C. Ehrlich 21 2nd Battalion, 2nd Infantry Regiment, 1st Infantry Division Mesa, Arizona Died of non-combat related injuries in Muqdadiyah, Iraq, on October 18, 2004
Senior Airmen Nicholas D. Eischen
24
60th Medical Operations Squadron, Travis Air Force Base
Sanger, California
Died of a non-combat related incident at Bagram Air Base, Afghanistan, on December 24, 2007. The circumstances surrounding the death are under investigation.
Staff Sgt. Gregory L. Elam
39
54th Quartermaster Company, 49th Quartermaster Group, 101st Airborne Division
Columbus, Georgia
Died as a result of a non-combat related illness in Kandahar, Afghanistan, on December 11, 2007. His death is under investigation.
Spc. Matthew J. Emerson
20
2nd Battalion, 7th Cavalry Regiment, 4th Brigade Combat Team, 1st Cavalry Division
Grandview, Washington
Died of injuries suffered from a non-combat related incident in Nineveh Province, Iraq, on September 18, 2007
Pfc. Andrew T. Engstrom
22
1st Battalion, 82nd Field Artillery Regiment, 1st Brigade Combat Team, 1st Cavalry Division
Slaton, Texas
Died of injuries suffered in a non-combat related incident in Taji, Iraq, on July 4, 2007Espaillat Jr, Pedro I. Senior Airman Air Force 20 5/15/04 weapon discharge
Pedro I. Espaillat Jr. Columbia, Tennessee Senior Airman Pedro I. Espaillat Jr., who worked for the Air Force as a plane mechanic, wanted to be an engineer.His father said he tried to persuade his oldest son to go first to college, then make the military a career. But Espaillat enlisted in 2001 after high school graduation."After he was in boot camp, I couldn't pull him out. He wanted to be an engineer since he was little. Now he never will," Pedro I. Espaillat Sr. said of his son.Espaillat, 20, of Columbia, Tenn., died May 15 of a self-inflicted gunshot wound in Kirkuk, Iraq. He was based at Seymour Johnson Air Force Base.Espaillat moved to Tennessee in 1993 with his mother and two brothers from the Dominican Republic. His father had arrived about three years earlier.The son graduated with honors, 38th in a class of 228 at Spring Hill High.
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/news/iraq/profile?
Capt. Phillip T. Esposito 30 Headquarters Company, 42nd Infantry Division, New York Army National Guard Suffern, New York Esposito died on June 8, 2005, in Tikrit, Iraq, of injuries sustained in an alleged fratricide attack in Tikrit, Iraq, on June 7, 2005. Another soldier, Staff Sgt. Alberto B. Martinez, has been charged with murder in connection with the attack, and is awaiting trial.
http://www.cnn.com/SPECIALS/2003/iraq/forces/casualties/page3.html
Arraignment set for alleged fragger
Staff Sgt. Alberto B. Martinez will face an arraignment hearing Nov. 3 at Fort Bragg, N.C., in the June 2005 deaths of two officers at a forward operating base in Tikrit, Iraq, the Army announced today.
http://www.armytimes.com/legacy/new/0-ARMYPAPER-2157595.php
Pvt. David Evans of the 924th Military Police Battalion, was killed in May 2003 while guarding the munitions dump at Ad Diwaniyah. Military officials told Macklin in March that Spc. Benjamin Hathaway lit some fuse bundles at the cajoling of another soldier, sparking a series of blasts that sent the three soldiers diving for cover. After a 10-month investigation, Hathaway was charged with involuntary manslaughter, negligent homicide and other offenses.
http://www.armytimes.com/legacy/new/1-292925-341142.php
Staff Sgt. Christopher L. Everett 23 2nd Battalion, 112th Armor Regiment, 56th Brigade Combat Team, Texas Army National Guard Huntsville, Texas Killed in an accident in the motor pool in Taqqadum, Iraq, on September 7, 2005
http://www.cnn.com/SPECIALS/2003/iraq/forces/casualties/page3.html
Sammantha Arlene Owen Ewing, 20, passed away Monday, Nov. 26, 2007, in Pawtucket, R.I. Sammantha was born in Orem, Utah, on Dec. 7, 1986
Cpl. Adam R. Fales 21 Combat Service Support Detachment-21, 2nd Marine Logistics Group, 2nd Marine Expeditionary Force Cullman, Alabama Died of a non-hostile gunshot wound in Falluja, Iraq, on December 16, 2005
Carolyn Farrar-Johnson, 58, was an active reserve sergeant with the 11th Battalion, 80th Regiment, Officer Education System. She was found dead in her residence at midday Monday.Her husband, Ronnie Nelson, has been charged with murder.
http://namguardianangel.blogspot.com/2007
/12/fort-belvoir-reservist-killed-by.html
Sgt. Andrew K. Farrar Jr. 31 Headquarters and Service Battalion, 2nd Force Service Support Group, 2nd Marine Expeditionary Force Weymouth, Massachusetts Died due to a non-hostile related incident in Anbar province, Iraq, on January 28, 2005 Al Anbar Province
Non-hostile - electrocution from ICasualties.org
Staff Sgt. Jefferey J. Farrow 28 146th Quartermaster Company, Army Reserve Birmingham, Alabama Died of non-combat related injuries in Camp Arifjan, Kuwait, on July 19, 2005
Capt. Brian R. Faunce 28 Headquarters Company, 3rd Brigade Combat Team, 4th Infantry Division Philadelphia, Pennsylvania Faunce's unit was clearing dangerously low-hanging power lines south of Ad Dujayl, Iraq, when he apparently touched an active power line, fatally injuring him on September 18, 2003.
http://www.cnn.com/SPECIALS/2003/iraq/forces/casualties/page3.html
Jason A. Fegler Serving with the 101st Airborne Division, Fegler may have died in a friendly fire incident, according to the Department of Defense . The Pentagon said the circumstances of his death“are under investigation as a potential friendly fire incident,” but released no further information. One requirement was to serve a tour of duty in Iraq, Snyder said. Fegler was promoted to his new rank a few days before his death, said Kelly Tyler , a spokeswoman at Fort Campbell.He was about a month into his third tour of duty in Iraq, Snyder said.
http://iraq.pigstye.net/article.php/FeglerJasonA
Spc. Rian C. Ferguson 22 Regimental Support Squadron, 3rd Armored Cavalry Regiment Taylors, South Carolina Died when he fell from the light medium tactical vehicle in which he was a passenger outside forward operating base Quinn, Iraq, on December 14, 2003
http://www.cnn.com/SPECIALS/2003/iraq/forces/casualties/page3.html
Capt. Michael S. Fielder
35
248th Medical Detachment, Headquarters and Headquarters Company, 44th Medical Command, XVIII Airborne Corps
Holly Springs, North Carolina
Died of injuries suffered from a non-combat related incident in Baghdad, Iraq, on August 19, 2007
Spc. Kirsten Fike, 36, of Warren, Pa., died a day after collapsing only two hours into the first day of a border surveillance mission near Yuma. She had deployed with the 28th Military Police Company. It was the first death in Arizona of a National Guard soldier since the start in June of Operation Jump Start, President Bush’s initiative to place 6,000 National Guard troops in support of Border Patrol operations along the Mexican border.
http://www.armytimes.com/legacy/new/0-ARMYPAPER-2039955.phpNot counted
Sgt. Courtney D. Finch
27
714th Maintenance Company, Kansas Army National Guard
Leavenworth, Kansas
Died of injuries sustained from a non-combat related incident in Qayyara, Iraq, on July 24, 2007
Spc. John R. Fish Searchers found, clad in his Army uniform, Wednesday afternoon while flying over a patch of rugged desert surrounding the Dona Ana Base Camp, about 30 miles (50 kilometers) from Fort Bliss in New Mexico, said Jean Offutt, a fort spokeswoman. His body was found about 1 1/2 miles (2.4 kilometers) north of the camp.
http://woundedtimes.blogspot.com/
2007/08/spc-john-r-fish-death-suspected-suicide.html
Sgt. 1st Class Brandon Floyd he also was taking Lariam before he killed his wife and himself, although the Army said it could not confirm that he was taking the drug.
Sgt Ryan D. Foraker 2002-09-24 31 Logan Ohio 342nd Military Police Company Army Reserve Ryan Disapeared from his unit in Guantanamo Bay. Exhaustive searches were conducted in an effort to locate him. His clothes and personal effects were found near the water's edge.
CHRIS FORCUM 20 OREGON GUNSHOT 12/3/2005 He tried to get help. But he slipped through the cracks in the military’s mental-health system. He applied for veterans’ health benefits, but Call — a combat veteran with years of active and Reserve duty — was told he didn’t qualify. Veterans Affairs has mental-health counselors even for veterans who don’t qualify for health benefits, but Call never got a chance to see one.
On Feb. 3 of this year, he shot himself.
http://www.veteransforamerica.org/index.cfm/page/Article/ID/7672
After Soldier's Suicide, his Family Calls for More Counseling December 5, 2005 - 9:06AM When soldiers return home from overseas, they go through a debriefing process, but one Springfield family says the military doesn't to enough for soldiers returning to civilian life; Chris Forcum, a 20-year-old marine, killed himself six weeks after returning home from Iraq.
http://www.ktvl.com/engine.pl?station=ktvl&id=10947&template=doesitwork.htmlNot counted
Sgt. Curtis J. Forshey, 22, of Hollidaysburg, Pa., died Tuesday in Homburg. His illness was not combat-related Sgt. Curtis J. Forshey liked the military life and, despite the daily dangers that went with serving in Iraq, had planned on making a career of it. Tragically, the 22-year-old Hollidaysburg resident died Tuesday in an Army hospital in Homburg, Germany, leaving behind a wife, Laura, and their 3-month-old son, Benjamin. "He was a great guy," the 23-year-old Laura, said Thursday. "He was a great husband, a great father and a great soldier." Curtis' mom, Sharon Forshey, said her son was serving his second tour of Iraq with the 494th Transportation Company, a part of the 101st Airborne Division out of Fort Campbell, Ky., when he got sick. Within a week of finding out he had leukemia, Curtis died from a brain aneurysm, a complication of his treatment. His death occurred shortly after his wife, son and parents arrived in Germany where he was hospitalized
http://iraq.pigstye.net/wd.php
Pfc. Jason Franco 18 Marine Aviation Logistics Squadron 11, Marine Aircraft Group 11, 3rd Marine Aircraft Wing Corona, California Died from a non-hostile incident in Anbar province, Iraq, on October 31, 2006
Age: 18
From: Corona, California
Assigned To: Marine Aviation Logistics Squadron 11, Marine Aircraft Group 11, 3rd Marine Aircraft Wing
Based In: Marine Corps Air Sta. Miramar, CA
Fatality Date: Tuesday, October 31, 2006
Fatality Cause: Non-hostile - gun shot wound
Fatality Location: Al Asad, Iraq
http://www.pe.com/localnews/inland/stories/PE_News_Local_H_marine02.3aaa5e7.html Press-Enterprise CORONA - Gulf War veteran and retired Marine Genaro Franco sat in his living room talking about how his son loved his mother's lasagna, his Mercedes Benz C320 and spending time with their large, extended family. He said he also knows his 18-year-old son loved being a Marine. Jason Franco had been in Iraq less than a month when he died Tuesday. He was the seventh Inland man to die in one of the war's deadliest months and the second Buena Vista High School graduate to die there this year. About 2 a.m. Tuesday, the family got a knock on the front door. His mother, Guadalupe Franco, asked who it was, and when the answer was the Marine Corps, she knew. The family had spoken to him just a few hours before he died. "He was so happy to be there. That's why he volunteered," said his teary-eyed mother, who was glad to have had that last conversation. Jason Franco also told his father that no matter what happened to him in Iraq, his father should take care of his younger brother, Kristian, 14, and sister Kuuielani, 12. Officials in Iraq are investigating the death, which the family described as agunshot wound to the head.
http://iraq.pigstye.net/article.php/FrancoJason
Leslie Frederick Jr 23 July 26, 2005—Army Spc. Leslie Frederick Jr., 23, stationed at Fort Lewis, shot and killed himself at his South Tacoma apartment. Wounded while serving 15 months in Iraq, Frederick had recently been among the first soldiers to receive the Army's new Combat Action Badge, which represents, says Army Chief of Staff Gen. Peter J. Schoomaker, "the Warrior Ethos." Frederick, according to relatives, suffered psychologically from the stress of combat. His wife also won a divorce and custody of their child six days before his suicide.
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John "Gunship" Frasso Friends of John Frasso were coming to terms Tuesday a day after the Vietnam War veteran they called "Gunship" took his own life outside the Department of Veterans Affairs Medical Center in Plains Township.They wondered why Frasso, who enjoyed making children laugh and giving more than he received, shot himself with a .45-caliber handgun. A note apparently written by Frasso, 61, of Nescopeck, explained he was protesting the war in Afghanistan, Luzerne County Coroner Dr. Jack Consalvo said.
http://storiesinamerica.blogspot.com/2006/10/vietnam-vet-commits-suicide-outside-of.html
Pvt. Benjamin L. Freeman 19 K Troop, 3rd Squadron, 3rd Armored Cavalry Regiment Valdosta, Georgia Drowned near Al Asad, Iraq, on October 13, 2003. Soldiers from his unit were searching for Freeman when they found him floating in the Euphrates River near Haditha Dam and attempts to revive him were unsuccessful.
http://www.cnn.com/SPECIALS/2003/iraq/forces/casualties/page3.html
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