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Gustavo A. Rios Ordonez, age 25, from Englewood, Ohio, Montgomery county.
Service era: Afghanistan
Military history: 4th Squadron, 4th Cavalry Regiment, 1st Heavy Brigade Combat Team, 1st Infantry Division, Fort Riley, Kansas
Date of death: Monday, June 20, 2011
Death details: Died in Kandahar Province, Afghanistan of wounds suffered when insurgents attacked his unit with an improvised explosive device.
Source: Department of Defense, Military Times
Adam D. Jones, age 27, from Germantown, Ohio, Montgomery county.
Service era: Afghanistan
Military history: 3rd Battalion, 2nd Marine Division, II Marine Expeditionary Force, Camp Lejeune, North Carolina.
Date of death: Wednesday, April 27, 2011
Death details: Died while conducting combat operations in Helmand Province, Afghanistan
Source: Department of Defense
Edward Love Jr Brooks, age 25, from Dayton, Ohio, Montgomery county.
Service era: Iraq
Military history: Company C, 1St Battalion, 77Th Armor, Schweinfurt, Germany
Date of death: Wednesday, August 29, 2007
Death details: Hostile; Ramadi, Iraq
Source: Department of Defense, findagrave.com
Nicholas Paul Brown, age 24, from Huber Heights, Ohio, Montgomery county.
Service era: Iraq
Military history: Company D, 2Nd Squadron, 7Th Cavalry, Fort Bliss, Tx
Date of death: Monday, January 22, 2007
Death details: Hostile; Mosul, Iraq
Source: Department of Defense, Military Times
James Paul Jr White, age 19, from Huber Heights, Ohio, Montgomery county.
Service era: Iraq
Military history: Company B, 1St Battalion, 32D Infantry, (Tf Spartan), Fort Drum, Ny
Date of death: Friday, August 11, 2006
Death details: Hostile; Jalalabad, Afghanistan
Source: Department of Defense, Military Times
Adam Robert Johnson, age 22, from Clayton, Ohio, Montgomery county.
Service era: Iraq
Military history: Company A, 2D Battalion, 502D Infantry (Tf Baghdad), Fort Campbell, Ky
Date of death: Monday, October 31, 2005
Death details: Hostile; Baghdad, Iraq
Source: Department of Defense, Military Times
Richard Alan Gilbert Jr., age 26, from Dayton, Ohio, Montgomery county.
Service era: Iraq
Military history: C Co, 1St Bn, 3D Mar, 31St Meu, 1St Mar Div, Kaneohe Bay, Hi
Date of death: Wednesday, January 26, 2005
Death details: Korean Village, Iraq
Source: Department of Defense, Military Times
Dustin Robert Fitzgerald, age 22, from Huber Heights, Ohio, Montgomery county.
Service era: Iraq
Military history: B Co, 1St Bn, 2D Mar, 24Th Meu, 1St Mar Div, Camp Pendleton, Ca
Date of death: Wednesday, August 18, 2004
Death details: died, in a non-combat related vehicle incident in Al Anbar Province, Iraq.
Source: Department of Defense, U.S. Navy, Military Times
John B. Buckmaster, age 21, from Vandalia, Ohio, Montgomery county.
Parents: Arley and EstherBuckmaster
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, Dayton Journal Herald (1983)
Ronald Joseph Schaaf, age 22, from Kettering, Ohio, Montgomery county.
Service era: Vietnam
Date of death: Sunday, July 26, 1970
Death details: Hostile, South Vietnam
Source: National Archives, Associated Press (1970)