Joshua A. Born, age 25, from Niceville, Florida, Okaloosa county.
Service era: Afghanistan
Military history: 385th Military Police Battalion, 16th Military Police Brigade (Airborne), XVIII Airborne Corps, Fort Stewart, Georgia.
Date of death: Wednesday, February 22, 2012
Death details: Died of wounds suffered in Nangarhar Province, Afghanistan when his unit came under small arms fire.
Source: Department of Defense, Military Times
John Lee Oelschlager, age 28, from Niceville, Florida, Okaloosa county.
Service era: Gulf War
Date of death: Thursday, January 31, 1991
Death details: During the Battle of Khafji, the AC-130 he was aboard was hit by a shoulder-fired missile as the plane attacked rocket launchers threatening U.S. Marines. Air Force officials said no one could have survived the crash. Only five of the 14 men lost were positively identified after remains were recovered from the plane, which was missing for more than a month before discovered on the bottom of the Persian Gulf off Saudi Arabia.
Cemetery: Barrancas National, Pensacola
Source: White House Commission on Remembrance, Gulf War Chronicles, Department of Veterans Affairs, Associated Press (1991)