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Joshua Mikeasky, age 19, from Johnstown, Pennsylvania, Cambria county.
Service era: Afghanistan
Military history: 4th Battalion, 31st Infantry, 2nd Brigade Combat Team, 10th Mountain Division, Ft. Drum, New York
Date of death: Thursday, December 13, 2018
Death details: Died at Bagram Airfield, Bagram District, Parwan Province, Afghanistan from non-combat related incident
Source: Department of Defense, Military Times
Derek Kozorosky, age 22, from Ebensburg, Pennsylvania, Cambria county.
Parents: Lisa M. (Zeman) Kozorosky and David Kozorosky
Spouse: Single
Children: None
Service era: Afghanistan
Schools: Bishop Carroll High, Ebensburg graduate; Mount Aloysius College
Date of death: Friday, February 11, 2011
Death details: Struck by a fire truck while training a firefighter on Kadena Air Base in Japan.
Cemetery: Holy Name
Source: Centre Daily Times, Johnstown Tribune Democrat
Derek L. Shanfield, age 22, from Hastings, Pennsylvania, Cambria county.
Parents: David Shanfield and Pamela Shanfield
Spouse: None
Children: None
Service era: Afghanistan
Schools: Cambria Heights High (2006)
Military history: 2nd Battalion, 6th Marine Regiment, 2nd Marine Division, II Marine Expeditionary Force, Camp Lejeune, North Carolina. Enlisted September 2005.
Date of death: Tuesday, June 8, 2010
Death details: Died after the explosion of a roadside bomb in Helmand Province, Afghanistan. Zachary J. Walters was also killed in the incident.
Cemetery: Union, Hastings
Source: Department of Defense, Johnstown Tribune Democrat, Pittsburgh Post Gazette, St. Augustine Record, grave marker, Miitary Times
Raymond Richard Buchan, age 33, from Johnstown, Pennsylvania, Cambria county.
Service era: Iraq – Operation Iraqi Freedom
Military history: Company B, 1st Battalion, 18th Infantry, Schweinfurt, Guam
Date of death: Sunday, July 1, 2007
Death details: Hostile, died in Ta`Meem, Iraq
Source: Department of Defense, findagrave.com
Aaron James Rusin, age 19, from Johnstown, Pennsylvania, Cambria county.
Service era: Iraq – Operation Iraqi Freedom
Military history: Company A, 44th Engineer Bn (Combat), 2d Infantry Div, Camp Howze, Korea
Date of death: Monday, October 11, 2004
Death details: Hostile, died in Baghdad, Iraq
Source: Department of Defense, Military Times
Christopher Allen Golby, age 26, from Johnstown, Pennsylvania, Cambria county.
Service era: Iraq – Operation Iraqi Freedom
Military history: 571st Medical Company (Air Ambulance), 3d Acr, Fort Carson, Co 80913
Date of death: Thursday, January 8, 2004
Death details: Hostile, died in Fallujah, Iraq
Cemetery: Richland, Johnstown
Source: Department of Defense, grave marker, Military Times
Anthony R. Jr. Stefanik, age 32, from Johnstown, Pennsylvania, Cambria county.
Parents: Donna
Spouse: Catherine
Children: Anthony, 2
Service era: Operation Restore Hope (Somalia)
Schools: Johnstown High graduate
Date of death: Monday, March 14, 1994
Death details: Among seven Air Force crew members killed when a gunship crashed off the coast of Kenya.
Cemetery: Grandview in Southmont, Pennsylvania
Source: White House Commission on Remembrance, findagrave.com, Springfield News-Leader (1994), Associated Press, Somerset Daily American (1994), Pensacola News (1994)
John T. Boxler, age 44, from Johnstown, Pennsylvania, Cambria county.
Service era: Gulf War
Military history: Also served in Vietnam
Date of death: Monday, February 25, 1991
Death details: Killed by SCUD missle attack.
Cemetery: Richland Cemetery, Johnstown. Memorialized at U.S. Post Office in Johnstown.
Source: Grave marker, White House Commission on Remembrance, Gulf War Chronicles
Elwood Eugene Rumbaugh, age 31, from Ebensburg, Pennsylvania, Cambria county.
Spouse: Married
Service era: Vietnam
Military history: Staff sergeant.
Date of death: Saturday, May 15, 1975
Death details: On May 15, 1975, a CH-53A Super Stallion (tail number 926) with a crew of four took part in a rescue of the U.S. merchant ship SS Mayaguez, located off the coast of Koh Tang Island, Cambodia. The Super Stallion was damaged by hostile ground fire during the mission, causing it to crash into the water off the island’s coast, in the vicinity of (GC) TS 940 400. A rescue team was able to locate and recover three members of the Super Stallion’s crew immediately after the crash; however, the flight engineer could not be found. Further searches of the crash site could not be conducted due to heavy enemy presence in the area. The remains of the Super Stallion’s flight engineer are still unaccounted for.
Staff Sergeant Elwood Eugene Rumbaugh, who joined the U.S. Air Force from Pennsylvania, was a member of the 21st Special Operations Squadron. He was the flight engineer aboard the Super Stallion when it went down, and was the crew member who was not located following the crash. His remains were not recovered, and he is still unaccounted for. Today, Staff Sergeant Rumbaugh is memorialized on the Courts of the Missing at the National Memorial Cemetery of the Pacific.
Source: National Archives, Department of Defense.
William Russell Jr. Lewis, age 24, from Cambria County Black Lick, Pennsylvania .
Parents: William R . And Velma Walters Lewis
Spouse: Paula Borish Lewis
Children: William John, 1
Service era: Vietnam
Schools: Indiana University
Date of death: Friday, October 22, 1971
Death details: Air loss near Quang Ngai, South Vietnam.
Source: National Archives, Labtrobe Bulletin (1971)