Cleston Conan Raney, age 20, from Rupert, Idaho, Minidoka county.
Service era: Iraq
Military history: B Co, 1st Engineer Battalion (1St Id), Fort Riley, Kansas
Date of death: Wednesday, March 31, 2004
Death details: Died when an improvised explosive device hit his vehicle in Habbaniyah, Iraq
Source: Department of Defense, Military Times
Neis A. Moller, age 23, from Aul, Idaho, Minidoka county.
Parents: Paul Farmer and Pat
Spouse: Married
Service era: Gulf War
Schools: Minico High (1886)
Date of death: Wednesday, February 27, 1991
Death details: Killed by small arms fire from Iraq National Guard
Source: White House Commission on Remembrance, Gulf War Chronicles, Lewiston Tribune (2001)
Gregg Neyman Hollinger, age 29, from Paul, Idaho, Minidoka county.
Service era: Vietnam
Date of death: Tuesday, December 14, 1971
Death details: On December 14, 1971, a U-21A aircraft (tail number: 66-18041; call sign: Longtrip 041) with two crew members and four passengers took off from Phu Bai, Republic of (South) Vietnam, on an administrative mission to Da Nang. During the flight, the aircraft experienced an in-flight emergency, and the pilot radioed that he had lost an engine and had a fire. Within minutes of this transmission, all radio and radar contact with “Longtrip 041” was lost. They immediately launched search and rescue aircraft, but bad weather soon forced to return to base. Searches continued for the next three days but failed to locate any of the crew or its passengers.
Captain (CPT) Gregg Neyman Hollinger joined the U.S. Army from Idaho and served with Quartermaster School, Training Directorate, Military Assistance Command, Vietnam. He was a passenger aboard “Longtrip 041” when it went missing off the coast northeast of Da Nang, Republic of (South) Vietnam and his remains have not been recovered. Today, CPT Hollinger is memorialized on the Courts of the Missing at the National Memorial Cemetery of the Pacific.
Source: National Archives, Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency
Lon Fiala, age 24, from Rupert, Idaho, Minidoka county.
Service era: World War I
Date of death: Sunday, August 11, 1918
Death details: Killed in action
Cemetery: Pleasant View, Burley, Idaho
Source: Soldiers of the Great War, findagrave.com, findagrave.com