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Jonathan P. Schmidt, age 28, from Petersburg, Virginia, Prince George county.
Service era: Afghanistan
Military history: 192nd Ordnance Battalion, 52nd Ordnance Group, 20th Support Command (CBRNE), Fort Bragg North Carolina.
Date of death: Saturday, September 1, 2012
Death details: Died in Batur Village, Afghanistan of wounds suffered when enemy forces attacked hit unit with small arms fire. Staff Sgt. Jeremie S. Border was also killed.
Source: Department of Defense
Jesse A. Ozbat, age 28, from Prince George, Virginia, Prince George county.
Parents: Aaron Ozbat
Service era: Afghanistan
Schools: Prince George High (2002) and Virginia State University (2006)
Military history: 168th Brigade Support Battalion, 214th Fires Brigade, Fort Sill, Oklahoma.
Date of death: Sunday, May 20, 2012
Death details: Died of wounds suffered when enemy forces attacked his unit with an improvised explosive device. 2nd Lt. Tobias C. Alexander was also killed.
“Honor Above All” Endowed Scholarship Fund was established in his memory.
Source: Department of Defense, Progress Index
Lawrence G. Sprader Jr., age 24, from Virginia, Prince George county.
Date of death: Sunday, June 10, 2007
Death details: Went missing from Fort Hood, Texas. Died from hyperthermia and dehydration
Middle Road bridge in Prince Georg was named in his honor in 2018.
Source: Virginia Military Dead Database the Library of Virginia, Richmond, Virginia, CBS News, Prince George County
Thomas Carlyle Morris Zeugner, age 36, from Petersburg, Virginia, Prince George county.
Service era: Gulf War
Date of death: Wednesday, February 27, 1991
Death details: Killed in accident in Saudi Arabia
Source: White House Commission on Remembrance, Gulf War Chronicles; Library of Virginia, Richmond
Richard Bayse from Prince George, Virginia, Prince George county.
Spouse: Freeda Baker Bayse
Service era: Vietnam
Date of death: Friday, March 16, 1962
Death details: Among 93 soldiers aboard a transport plane on a “secret mission” to Vietnam. Wreaths Across America in 2021: “Very little is known about what happened to the plane and its passengers, and due to the circumstance surrounding this mission, the names of those lost have not yet been added to the Vietnam Veterans Memorial in Washington D.C.”
Cemetery: A memorial honoring the lives lost was dedicated in 2021 in Columbia Falls, Maine
Source: Atlanta Counstitution (1962), MauiNow (2021), UPI (1962)