Two young soldiers from the U.S. territory of Guam lost their lives in suicide car bomb attack near Kabul, Afghanistan on May 16.
Killed were:
Sgt. Eugene M. Aguon, 23, of Mangilao, Guam, and
Spc. Dwayne W. Flores, 22, of Sinajana, Guam
According to the Department of Defense, both soldiers were assigned to the 1st Battalion, 294th Infantry Regiment, 29th Infantry Brigade Combat Team at Fort Juan Muna in ...
Army Sgt. 1st Class Jeffrey C. Baker, 29, of Hesperia and Spc. William J. Gilbert, 24, of Hacienda Heights were killed May 14 in an improvised explosive device blast, according to the Department of Defense.
As Home Post reported last week, the soldiers were part of a NATO convoy on patrol when their vehicle was hit by a roadside bomb.
Also killed in the attack was Spc. Mitchell K. Daehling ...
Army Sgt. 1st Class Trenton L. Rhea, 33, died May 15 in Kandahar, Afghanistan. According to the Department of Defense, Rhea drowned while attempting to cross a body of water during combat operations.
No other details on Rhea's death have been released.
Rhea was from Oakley, Kansas. He was assigned to the 603rd Military Police Company, 530th Military Police Battalion, 300th Military Police Brigade, 200th Military Police Command in ...
A car bomb attack today near the Afghan capital of Kabul killed two U.S. troops and four American civilian defense contractors.
The Associated Press reports the suicide attack also killed nine Afghan civilians. Two of the Afghans killed were children.
The Virginia-based contractor DynCorp International released a statement saying four of its employees working on the Combined Security Transition Command - Afghanistan program died in the attack, and three other ...
Three United States service members were killed today in Kandahar province, Afghanistan when their vehicle hit a roadside bomb.
NATO spokesman Col. Thomas Collins told The Associated Press that the three Americans killed were part of a NATO convoy on patrol:
"The convoy struck an IED (improvised explosive devise) in Zhari district this afternoon."
Several other service members were injured in the attack, although Collins could not give exact numbers.
A military working dog named Cpl. Tick was killed on May 14, 2012 in an improvised explosive device blast in Afghanistan. Cpl Tick's handler, Lance Cpl. Bryan Utrilla, will honor her on the one-year anniversary of her death by placing her dog tags on the Camp Pendleton cross memorial.
Utrilla wrote an email to the blog Battle Rattle, calling Cpl. Tick, a two-year-old black lab, a beloved friend who ...
A Marine Corps investigation found Lance Cpl. John Cagle, 19, was killed in September 2011 when the hydraulic seat in his Light Armored Vehicle malfunctioned and crushed his throat, according to documents obtained by the Marine Corps Times.
Those documents show Cagle was found with a “deep indentation, one inch by one inch, on the back of his neck.” Cagle, deployed in Afghanistan, had been in the process of conducting ...
The Pentagon has identified the five U.S. soldiers killed May 4 when their vehicle hit an improvised explosive device attack.
The fallen soldiers are:
-1st Lt. Brandon J. Landrum, 26, of Lawton, Oklahoma
-Staff Sgt. Francis G. Phillips IV, 28, of Meridian, New York
-Spc. Kevin Cardoza, 19, of Mercedes, Texas,
-Spc. Thomas P. Murach, 22, of Meridian, Idaho
-Spc. Brandon J. Prescott, 24, of Bend, Oregon
All five ...
Two Marines based at Camp Lejeune, Staff Sgt. Eric D. Christian, 39, of Warwick, N.Y., and Cpl. David M. Sonka, 23, of Parker, Colorado, were killed May 4 in an insider attack. Killed alongside them was Sonka's military working dog, Flex.
The Department of Defense reports the two Marines were assigned to 2nd Marine Special Operations Battalion at Camp Lejeune.
According to a casualty report by the NATO ...
Army Staff Sgt. Michael H. Simpson, 30, died May 1 in Landstuhl, Germany of wounds he suffered in an April 27 improvised explosive device attack in Afghanistan.
The Department of Defense reports Simpson was a Green Beret assigned to the 4th Battalion, 1st Special Forces Group (Airborne) at Joint Base Lewis-McChord in Washington.
Michael's widow, Krista Simpson, told the Tacoma News-Tribune her husband was a "badass" who was also ...
National Air Cargo company officials have identified seven employees who were killed Monday when their cargo plane crashed soon after takeoff from Bagram Airfield in Afghanistan.
Associated Press has named those killed as:
-Jamie Brokaw, 33, of Monroe, Michigan
-Gary Stockdale, 51, of Romulus, Michigan
-Brad Hasler, 34, of Trenton, Michigan
-Jeremy Lipka, 37, of Brooklyn, Michigan
-Rinku Summan, 32, of Canton, Michigan
-Michael Sheets, 36, of Ypsilanti, Michigan
-Timothy ...
A Camp Pendleton Navy Corpsman will be awarded the Silver Star medal at a special ceremony on base Friday.
Petty Officer 1st Class Benny Flores helped save the lives of wounded Marines during an enemy attack in Afghanistan last year, despite the fact he was injured himself.
Flores was serving as a field service medical technician when the attack took place in Nimruz province's Zaranj district on April 28 ...
Three members of the NATO International Security Assistance Force were killed Tuesday by a roadside bomb in southern Afghanistan, according to an ISAF casualty report.
ISAF does not name the nationality of casualties, as a matter of policy.
According to the Daily Mail, the incident happened in Helmand province:
[The NATO troops] were in a vehicle searching for IEDs on a tarmac surface when the device exploded.
Seven crew members of a U.S. civilian cargo plane were killed when their aircraft crashed shortly after takeoff Monday at Bagram Airfield in Afghanistan, according to BBC News.
While the Taliban has claimed responsibility for the crash, the NATO International Security Assistance Force denies this to be true. NATO ISAF spokesman Lt. Quenton Roehricht told NBC News:
"At this time, we can confirm there was no insurgent activity when ...
Army Capt. Aaron R. Blanchard, 32, and 1st Lt. Robert J. Hess, 26, were killed on April 23 in Afghanistan by a missile attack, according to the Department of Defense.
Both soldiers were assigned to the 2nd Aviation Battalion, 10th Combat Aviation Brigade, 10th Mountain Division at Fort Drum in New York.
Blanchard, an Apache pilot, was originally from Selah, Washington. He leaves behind a wife and two young children ...
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