Army Spc. Ray A. Ramirez, 20, of Sacramento, California, was killed June 1 in Wardak Province, Afghanistan from injuries suffered when his vehicle was attacked with an improvised explosive device, according to the Department of Defense.

Ramirez was assigned to the 3rd Battalion, 15th Infantry Regiment, 4th Infantry Brigade Combat Team, 3rd Infantry Division at Fort Stewart in Georgia.

According to Ramirez's Facebook page, he was a 2010 graduate ...

Army Staff Sgt. Joe A. Nunezrodriguez, 29, died May 30 in Wardak Province, Afghanistan.

According to the Department of Defense, Nunezrodriguez was killed when the vehicle he was riding in was hit by an Improvised Explosive Device.

Nunezrodriguez was assigned to the 68th Combat Support Sustainment Battalion, 43rd Sustainment Brigade, 4th Infantry Division at Fort Carson in Colorado.

Nunezrodriguez was a native of Pasadena, Texas.

Louisiana National Guardsman Spc. Christopher R. Drake, 20, was killed May 26 in Bagram, Afghanistan when a rocket propelled grenade hit his vehicle.

The Department of Defense reports Drake was assigned to the 1084th Transportation Company, 165th Combat Support Sustainment Battalion, 139th Regional Support Group, Reserve, Louisiana.

According to Drake's Facebook page, he lived in Tickfaw, Louisiana and was recently engaged to be married. On May 14, he posted ...

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 ...