Christopher Alan Sanders, age 22, from Roswell, New Mexico, Chaves county.
Service era: Iraq
Military history: Hht, 3D Squadron, 2D Cavalry, Vilseck, Germany
Date of death: Wednesday, January 9, 2008
Death details: Hostile; Sinsil, Iraq
Source: Department of Defense, Military Times
Brynn Joel Naylor, age 21, from Roswell, New Mexico, Chaves county.
Service era: Iraq
Military history: Company C, 2D Battalion, 12Th Infantry, 2 Bct, Fort Carson, Co
Date of death: Thursday, December 13, 2007
Death details: Hostile; Baghdad, Iraq
Source: Department of Defense, Military Times
Ricky Jr. Salas, age 22, from Roswell, New Mexico, Chaves county.
Service era: Iraq
Spouse: Married
Children: Two
Military history: Company C, 2D Battalion, 37Th Armor, Friedberg, Germany
Date of death: Tuesday, March 7, 2006
Death details: Hostile; Mosul, Iraq. Died when an improvised explosive device detonated near his vehicle.
Source: Department of Defense, Military Times
Moses Daniel Rocha, age 33, from Roswell, New Mexico, Chaves county.
Service era: Iraq
Military history: Blt 1/4, 11Th Meu, Camp Pendleton, Ca
Date of death: Thursday, August 5, 2004
Death details: Hostile; Najaf, Iraq
Source: Department of Defense, Military Times
Tommy Lee Gray, age 34, from Roswell, New Mexico, Chaves county.
Service era: Iraq
Military history: C Company, 215Th Forward Support Battalion, Fort Hood, Texas
Date of death: Tuesday, August 3, 2004
Death details: Taji, Iraq
Source: Department of Defense, Military Times
Monty Doyal Boyer, age 21, from New Mexico, Chaves county.
Parents: Michael T. Linville
Service era: Vietnam
Date of death: Monday, September 7, 1970
Source: National Archives, UPI (1970)
Cresencio Paul Sanchez, age 20, from Chaves County Roswell, New Mexico .
Service era: Vietnam
Date of death: Friday, March 4, 1966
Death details: Killed in action in Vietnam
Source: National Archives, UPI (1966)
Lavon Stephen Wilson, age 20, from Chaves County Roswell, New Mexico .
Service era: Vietnam
Date of death: Wednesday, February 10, 1965
Death details: Killed in a barracks raid in a U.S. occupied hotel in South Vietnam.
Source: National Archives, UPI (1965)
James Reding, age 36, from Rosewell, New Mexico, Chaves county.
Service era: Korea
Military history: Stationed at Offutt Air Base in Omaha
Date of death: Thursday, March 2, 1950
Death details: Killed in Council Bluffs, Iowa when the car he was in struck a tree.
Source: Associated Press (1950), Randolph Times (1950)
Jim W. Verhines from Chaves County Rosewell, New Mexico .
Service era: World War II
Date of death: Tuesday, April 24, 1945
Death details: On Feb. 24, 2026, the Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency identified the remains of U.S. Army Air Forces Tech. Sgt. Jim W. Verhines, missing from World War II. Verhines entered the service from Texas and served with the 458th Bombardment Squadron, 330th Bombardment Group. On April 13, 1945, he was the engineer on a B-29 Superfortress aircraft that took part in a combat mission against targets in Tokyo, Japan. During the mission, the aircraft was shot down. Verhines survived the crash but was captured and later imprisoned at the Tokyo Military Prison. He died on the night of May 25–26, 1945, when an air raid ignited a fire that burned much of Tokyo, including the Military Prison. Following the war, the American Graves Registration Service recovered 65 sets of remains from the prison but was unable to identify any as Verhines. Thirty-nine Unknowns associated with the Tokyo Military Prison were interred at Fort McKinley Cemetery, now the Manila American Cemetery and Memorial, in Manila, the Philippines. In 2022, DPAA exhumed those 39 Unknowns for laboratory analysis. There, scientists used modern forensic techniques to identify Verhines.
Source: National Archives, Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency, Albuquerque Tribune (1945)