Yelner, Jonathan Antonio Vega
Air Force Senior Airman

Jonathan Antonio Vega Yelner, age 24, from Lafayette, California, Contra Costa county.

Parents: Yolanda Vega and Bruce Yelner; stepfather Bill Theile

Service era: Iraq
Schools: De La Salle High in Walnut Creek (2002)
Military history: 28Th Aircraft Maintenance Squadron, Ellsworth Afb, Sd; Enlisted October 7, 2003.

Date of death: Tuesday, April 29, 2008
Death details: Killed when his vehicle struck a roadside bomb near at Tagab Valley, Afghanistan
Cemetery: Oakmont Cemetery, Lafayette

Source: Department of Defense, Los Angeles Times, Military Times