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Errol D. A. Milliard, age 18, from Birmingham, Alabama.
Service era: Afghanistan
Military history: 2nd Engineer Battalion, 36th Engineer Brigade, White Sands Missile Range, New Mexico.
Date of death: Thursday, July 4, 2013
Death details: Died in Farah Province, Afghanistan of injuries sustained when enemy forces attacked his unit with a rocket propelled grenade while on dismounted patrol.
Source: Department of Defense, Legacy
Julian L. Colvin, age 21, from Birmingham, Alabama.
Service era: Afghanistan
Military history: 508th Special Troops Battalion, 4th Brigade Combat Team, 82nd Airborne Division, Fort Bragg, North Carolina.
Date of death: Sunday, July 22, 2012
Death details: Died in Kandahar, Afghanistan of wounds suffered from an enemy improvised explosive device. Staff Sgt. Richard L. Berry was also killed.
Source: Department of Defense, Military Times
Thomas E. Rivers, age 22, from Birmingham, Alabama.
Service era: Aghanistan
Schools: Briarwood Christian School (2007)
Military history: 1st Battalion, 2nd Marine Regiment , 2nd Marine Division, II Marine Expeditionary Force, Camp Lejeune, North Carolina.
Date of death: Wednesday, April 28, 2010
Death details: Died while supporting combat operation in Helmand Province, Afghanistan.
Source: Department of Defense, WRAL, Military Times
Carlie Mattison III Lee, age 23, from Birmingham, Alabama, Jefferson county.
Parents: Carlie
Service era: Iraq
Military history: Company D, 2D Battalion, 87Th Infantry, 3 Bct, Fort Drum, New York
Date of death: Friday, May 15, 2009
Death details: Hostile; Fob Shank, Afghanistan
Cemetery: Bayview Cemetery in Mulga
Source: Department of Defense, Military Times
Joseph David De Moors, age 36, from Birmingham, Alabama, Jefferson county.
Service era: Iraq
Military history: 66Th Military Intelligence Company, Fort Carson, Co
Date of death: Saturday, January 7, 2006
Death details: Zambar Mountain, Iraq
Source: Department of Defense, Military Times
Jefferey Jerome Farrow, age 28, from Birmingham, Alabama, Jefferson county.
Service era: Iraq
Military history: 146Th Combat Support Company, Fort Totten, Ny
Date of death: Tuesday, July 19, 2005
Death details: Camp Arifjan, Kuwait
Source: Department of Defense, Military Times
Kelley Stephen Prewitt, age 24, from Birmingham, Alabama, Jefferson county.
Service era: Iraq
Military history: Hhc 2D Battalion, 69Th Armor, Fort Benning, Ga 31905
Date of death: Sunday, April 6, 2003
Death details: Hostile; Baghdad, Iraq
Source: Department of Defense, Military Times
Stephen G. Schramm, age 43, from Birmingham, Alabama, Jefferson county.
Service era: Gulf War
Date of death: Monday, October 8, 1990
Death details: Killed when his Pantom jet crashed during a training mission in Saudi Arabia
Source: White House Commission on Remembrance, The Gulf War Chronicles, Department of Defense, Associated Press (1990)
Jimmy R. Cain, age 20, from Jefferson County Birmingham, Alabama .
Parents: Doris Collins
Spouse: Married
Service era: Beirut bombings
Date of death: Sunday, October 23, 1983
Death details: Among more than 200 military personnel killed in the terroist bombing of Marine headquarters in Beirut.
Source: White House Commission on Remembrance, Associated Press (1983)
Gary Wayne Crumley from Birmingham, Alabama, Jefferson county.
Service era: Cold War
Date of death: Monday, January 28, 1980
Death details: Among the 23 who died when the Coast Guard Cutter Blackthorn collided with a tanker near the Sunshine Skyway Bridge in Tampa Bay in Florida.
Source: United State Coast Guard, Tampa Bay Times (1980)