Javares Javon Washington, age 27, from Pensacola, Florida, Escambia county.
Service era: Iraq
Military history: Company F, 6Th Battalion, 101St Aviation, Fort Campbell, Ky
Date of death: Monday, February 11, 2008
Death details: Ironhorse And Aspen Extension, Kuwait
Source: Department of Defense
Christopher James Kenny, age 32, from Miami, Florida, Dade county.
Service era: Iraq
Military history: Hhc, 2D Battalion, 2D Infantry, 1St Infantry Division, Apo Ae 09112, Vilseck, Ge
Date of death: Monday, May 3, 2004
Death details: Balad, Iraq
Source: Department of Defense, Military Times
Dustin Howard Schrage, age 20, from Indian Harbor Beach, Florida, Brevard county.
Service era: Iraq
Military history: F Co, 2D Bn, 4Th Mar, 1-1 Id, 1St Mar Div, Camp Pendleton, California
Date of death: Monday, May 3, 2004
Death details: Hostile; Al Anbar Province, Iraq
Source: Department of Defense, Military Times
Michael Russell Creighton-Weldon, age 20, from Palm Bay, Florida, Brevard county.
Service era: Iraq
Military history: Company A 2D Battalion 7Th Infanty Regiment Fort Stewart, Georgia
Date of death: Saturday, March 29, 2003
Death details: Killed in a suicide bombing in Obj Raider, Iraq
Source: Department of Defense, Military Times
Don Lee Unger, age 26, from Lake Worth, Florida, Palm Beach county.
Service era: Vietnam
Date of death: Wednesday, May 3, 1972
Death details: On June 12, 1974, the Central Identification Laboratory-Thailand (CILT, now DPAA) identified the remains of Captain Don Lee Unger, missing from the Vietnam War. Captain Unger joined the U.S. Air Force from Florida and was a member of the 345th Tactical Airlift Squadron, 374th Tactical Airlift Wing. On May 3, 1972, he was a crew member aboard a C-130E Hercules that took off on a resupply mission near An Loc, Vietnam. The aircraft was shot down during the mission, and Capt Unger was killed in the crash. Once fighting had stopped in the area, search and rescue teams recovered the remains of most of the crew; however, Capt Unger’s remains could not be individually identified until 1974.
Cemetery: Lake Worth Memory Grades, Florida
Source: National Archives, Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency, findagrave.com
Randolph Jefferson Ard from West Pensacola, Florida, Escambia county.
Service era: Vietnam
Date of death: Sunday, March 7, 1971
Death details: On December 9, 2004, the Joint POW/MIA Accounting Command (JPAC, now DPAA) identified the remains of Chief Warrant Officer Randolph Jefferson Ard, missing from the Vietnam War.
Chief Warrant Officer Ard entered the U.S. Army from Florida and was a member of Headquarters and Headquarters Company, 1st Brigade, 5th Infantry Division. On March 7, 1971, he piloted an OH-58A Kiowa (tail number 6816814) on a personnel transport mission to an area on the Laos/Vietnam border. On its approach to a landing zone, the aircraft was shot down by enemy anti-aircraft fire and crashed in Savannakhet Province, Laos. CWO Ard did not survive the incident and his remains were not recovered at the time of his loss. Between 1989 and 2004, joint U.S./Laotian teams investigated the loss area and recovered a set of remains that U.S. analysts eventually identified as those of CWO Ard.
Source: National Archives, Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency
Samuel Adams from Goldenrod, Florida, Orange county.
Service era: Vietnam
Date of death: Sunday, October 31, 1965
Death details: On October 31, 1965, four U.S. service members returning from a rest and relaxation break in Vung Tau, South Vietnam, were riding in a truck with a Vietnamese driver. While en route to Saigon, the truck was stopped by local communist guerilla forces and the four U.S. service members were captured. On November 2, while being moved to an enemy prisoner of war camp, two of the four men attempted to escape; one was wounded and recaptured by the guards, but the other successfully escaped and returned to U.S. control two days later. Upon his return, air and ground search efforts were launched for the other three men but without success. In January 1973, the names of the three men who did not escape appeared on the died-in-captivity list released by the Provisional Revolutionary Government of South Vietnam, and their remains have not been returned.
Staff Sergeant Samuel Adams entered the U.S. Air Force from Florida and served with the 6250th Support Squadron. He was one of the three men who did not escape during this incident and was reportedly killed by the local communist guerilla guards. He remains unaccounted for. Following the incident, the Air Force promoted SSgt Adams to the rank of Chief Master Sergeant (CMSgt). Today, Chief Master Sergeant Adams is memorialized on the Courts of the Missing at the National Memorial Cemetery of the Pacific.
Source: National Archives, Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency