Stephen Charles Reich, age 34, from Savannah, Georgia, Chatham county.
Service era: Iraq
Spouse: Jill (Blue) Reich
Military history: Company B, 3D Battalion, 160Th Soar, Hunter Army Airfield, Georgia
Date of death: Tuesday, June 28, 2005
Death details: Aong 16 killed when a grenade brought down the helicopter he was in at Asadabad, Afghanistan
Source: Department of Defense, Hartford Courant
David James Salie, age 34, from Columbus, Georgia, Muscogee county.
Service era: Iraq
Military history: B Company, 2D Battalion, 69Th Armor, 3D Infantry Division, Fort Benning, Ga
Date of death: Monday, February 14, 2005
Death details: Hostile; Ba’Qubah, Iraq
Source: Department of Defense
Thomas Franklin Case from Thomson, Georgia, McDuffie county.
Service era: Vietnam
Date of death: Tuesday, May 31, 1966
Death details: On February 19, 1987, the Central Identification Lab-Hawaii (CILHI, now DPAA) identified the remains of Colonel Thomas Franklin Case, missing from the Vietnam War.
Colonel Case, who joined the U.S. Air Force from Georgia, served with the 61st Troop Carrier Squadron. On May 31, 1966, Col Case piloted a C-130 Hercules (tail number 64-0511) departing from Da Nang Air Base, South Vietnam, on a classified bombing mission using special weapons against the Thanh Hoa Bridge in North Vietnam. During the bombing run, the Hercules was shot down and Col Case was killed. Hostile presence in the area prevented immediate recovery efforts. In 1986, the Vietnamese government repatriated remains which were later identified as those of Colonel Case.
Source: National Archives, Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency