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Julian M. Kevianne, age 31, from Detroit, Michigan.
Parents: Tina Albo
Service era: Afghanistan
Date of death: Monday, July 10, 2017
Death details: Among 15 Marines and 1 Navy sailor killed when their aircraft crashed in Mississippi.
Source: Washington Post, Facebook
Vincent J. Bell, age 28, from Detroit, Michigan, Wayne county.
Service era: Afghanistan
Military history: 2nd Battalion, 11th Marine Regiment, 1st Marine Division, I Marine Expeditionary Force, Camp Pendleton, California.
Date of death: Wednesday, November 30, 2011
Death details: Died while conducting combat operations in Helmand Province, Afghanistan.
Source: Department of Defense, Military Times
Heath M. Robinson, age 34, from Detroit, Michigan.
Service era: Afghanistan
Military history: East Cost-based Naval Special Warfare Unit
Date of death: Saturday, August 6, 2011
Death details: Was among 30 servicemembers who died in Wardak Province Afghanistan of wounds suffered when their CH-47 Chinoo helicopter crashed after it came under enemy attack.
Cemetery: Arlington National
Source: Department of Defense, Military Times, findagrave
Anthony Webb Frietas, age 23, from Detroit, Michigan, Wayne county.
Service era: Iraq
Military history: Marine Wing Support Squadron 172, Marine Wing Support Group 17, 1st Marine Aircraft Wing, III Marine Expeditionary Force, Okinawa, Japan. Enlisted August 2004.
Date of death: Tuesday, December 8, 2009
Death details: Died from unknown causes in Baghdad.
Source: Department of Defense, Detroit Free Press
Antione Vincent Robinson, age 20, from Detroit, Michigan, Wayne county.
Service era: Iraq
Military history: Company F, 782D Brigade Support Battalion, 4 Bct, Fort Bragg, North Carolina
Parents: ginger L. Jhons and Emror Robinson
Date of death: Wednesday, March 19, 2008
Death details: Died of injuries sustained when the vehicle he was repairing collapsed in Afghanistan
Source: Department of Defense, Military Times
Lewis Jay Gentry, age 48, from Detroit, Michigan, Wayne county.
Service era: Iraq
Military history: Hhc, 94Th Engineer Battalion (Mnci), Vilseck, Germany
Date of death: Wednesday, October 26, 2005
Death details: Mosul, Iraq
Source: Department of Defense, Military Times
Tyrone M. Brooks, age 19, from Detroit, Michigan, Wayne county.
Service era: Gulf War
Date of death: Tuesday, October 30, 1990
Death details: Died with nine other sailors aboard the USS Iwo Jima when the ship’s 850-degree steam pipe erupted.
Source: White House Commission on Remembrance, Newsweek, Orlando Sentinel, Department of Defense
Leon Banning, age 20, from Detroit, Michigan, Wayne county.
Service era: Cold War
Date of death: Sunday, October 30, 1983
Death details: One of three American soldiers from a multi-national force patrolling the Sinai Peninsula who were killed when their truck crashed into a tree near the northwestern Sinai town of El Arish.
Source: Detroit Free Press (1983), Poughkeepsie Journal (1983)
Johansen Banks, age 23, from Wayne County Detroit, Michigan .
Parents: Estelle Banks
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)
Anthony Brown, age 24, from Wayne County Detroit, Michigan .
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, Detroit Free Press (1983)