Matthew Michael Murchison, age 21, from Independence, Missouri, Jackson county.
Service era: Iraq
Military history: 127Th Military Police Company, 709Th Mp Bn, 18Th Mp Bde, Hanau, Germany
Date of death: Saturday, August 4, 2007
Death details: Hostile; Baghdad, Iraq
Source: Department of Defense, Legacy
Benjamin James Ashley, age 22, from Independence, Missouri, Jackson county.
Service era: Iraq
Military history: Battery D, 1St Battalion, 5Th Field Artillery, Fort Riley, Ks
Date of death: Thursday, May 24, 2007
Death details: Hostile; Balad, Iraq
Source: Department of Defense
Shawn Phillip Rankinen, age 28, from Independence, Missouri, Jackson county.
Service era: Iraq
Military history: Troop D, 2D Squadron, 5Th Cavalry, Fort Hood, Tx
Date of death: Wednesday, March 7, 2007
Death details: Hostile; Baghdad, Iraq. Died when an improvised explosive device detonated near his vehicle
Source: Department of Defense, Military Times, findagrave.com
Anthony Michael Mazzarella, age 22, from Blue Springs, Missouri, Jackson county.
Service era: Iraq
Military history: Company B, 1St Battalion, 13Th Armor, (Tf Baghdad), Fort Riley, Ks
Date of death: Tuesday, July 5, 2005
Death details: Taji, Iraq
Source: Department of Defense
Richard Michael Crane, age 25, from Independence, Missouri, Jackson county.
Service era: Iraq
Military history: Detachment 1, 325Th Field Hospital, Independence, Mo
Date of death: Tuesday, February 8, 2005
Death details: Kandahar Airfield, Afghanistan
Source: Department of Defense, Military Times
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Joel Lin Bertoldie, age 20, from Independence, Missouri, Jackson county.
Service era: Iraq
Military history: Hhc 4Th Battalion 64Th Armored Regiment, Fort Stewart, Georgia
Date of death: Friday, July 18, 2003
Death details: Hostile; Fallujah, Iraq
Source: Department of Defense, Military Times
Jeremiah David Smith, age 25, from Independence, Missouri, Jackson county.
Spouse: Married
Children: Daughters, 3, 5
Service era: Iraq
Military history: 1St Battalion 34Th Armor, Fort Riley, Kansas
Date of death: Tuesday, May 27, 2003
Death details: Killed in Baghdad, Iraq while escorting heavy equipment transporters when his vehicle hit unexploded ordnance
Source: Department of Defense, Military Times
Phillip D. Mobley, age 26, from Blue Springs, Missouri, Jackson county.
Service era: Gulf War
Date of death: Wednesday, February 27, 1991
Death details: Killed when he stepped on a land mine.
Source: White House Commission on Remembrance, Gulf War Chronicles
Richard R. Lee, age 36, from Independence, Missouri, Jackson county.
Spouse: Married
Children: Daughter
Service era: Gulf War
Date of death: Thursday, February 7, 1991
Death details: Killed when his UH-1 Huey helicopter crashed in Saudi Arabia while attempting to avoid a midair collision with another aircraft
Cemetery: Fort Bragg
Source: White House Commission on Remembrance, Department of Defense, Fort Pierce Tribune (1991)
Roger William Carroll Jr. from Kansas City, Missouri.
Service era: Vietnam
Date of death: Thursday, September 21, 1972
Death details: On September 29, 1995, Joint Task Force-Full Accounting (JTF-FA, now DPAA) identified the remains of Major Roger William Carroll Jr., missing from the Vietnam War.
Major Carroll joined the U.S. Air Force from Missouri and was a member of the Headquarters, 7th Air Force. On September 21, 1972, he was the pilot of an F-4D Phantom II (tail number 66-8769) on a strike mission over northern Laos. Major Carroll’s aircraft was downed by anti-aircraft fire during the mission, and he was killed in the crash. His body could not be recovered at the time. In 1994, a joint U.S. and Laotian search team recovered remains from a crash site associated with Maj Carroll’s loss. The next year, U.S. analysts identified the remains as those of Maj Carroll.
Major Carroll is memorialized on the Courts of the Missing at the National Memorial Cemetery of the Pacific.
Source: National Archives, Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency