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Jeffery Barnes, age 33, from Milton, Florida, Santa Rosa county.
Service era: Post war on terror
Military history: 3rd Combat Aviation Brigade
Date of death: Wednesday, March 29, 2023
Death details: Among nine killed in a mid-air collision involving two Black Hawk helicopters near Fort Campbell, Kentucky during a routine training mission.
Source: CBS News, Pensacola News Journal (2023)
Matthew C. Colin, age 22, from Navarre, Florida, Santa Rosa county.
Service era: Afghanistan
Military history: 1st Battalion, 5th infantry Regiment, 1st Stryker Brigade Combat team, 25th Infantry Division, Fort Wainwright, Alaska.
Date of death: Wednesday, November 16, 2011
Death details: Died in Kandahar Province, Afghanistan of wounds suffered when enemy forces attacked his unit with an improvised explosive device. Spc. James R. Burnett Jr. also died.
Source: Department of Defense, Military Times
Travis M. Nelson, age 19, from Pace, Florida, Santa Rosa county.
Service era: Afghanistan
Military history: 1st Battalion, 6th Marine Regiment, 2nd Marine Division, II Marine Expeditionary Force, Camp Lejeune, North Carolina.
Date of death: Thursday, August 18, 2011
Death details: Died while conducting combat operations in Helmand Province, Afghanistan.
Source: Department of Defense, Military Times
Daniel Lee Mccall, age 24, from Pace, Florida, Santa Rosa county.
Service era: Iraq
Military history: Company A, 1St Battalion, 15Th Infantry, 3 Bct, Fort Benning, Ga
Date of death: Tuesday, October 30, 2007
Death details: Hostile; Baghdad, Iraq
Source: Department of Defense, Military Times
Arthur Galvan, age 33, from Navarre, Florida, Santa Rosa county.
Parents: Doris O’Campo
Spouse: Married
Children: Two children
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.
Source: White House Commission on Remembrance, Gulf War Chronicles, Military Times, Grand Junction Daily Sentinel (2004), Los Angeles Times (1991)
Dixon L. Jr. Walters, age 29, from Navarre, Florida, Santa Rosa 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: Arlington National
Source: White House Commission on Remembrance, Gulf War Chronicles, Arlington National Cemetery, Associated Press (1991)
Paul J. Weaver, age 34, from Navarre, Florida, Santa Rosa 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.
Source: White House Commission on Remembrance, Gulf War Chronicles, Assocaited Press (1991)
Shannon Kelly, age 23, from Gulf Breeze, Florida, Santa Rosa county.
Service era: Gulf War
Date of death: Monday, December 31, 1990
Death details: Died from a self-inflicted gunshot wound.
Source: White House Commission on Remembrance, The Gulf War Chronicles, Department of Defense, Knoxville News Sentinel (1991)
Paul D. Jr. Lyon, age 21, from Santa Rosa County Milton, Florida .
Parents: Paul and Maria Lyon
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, Pensacola News (1983)
Larry Gene Yeager, age 21, from Milton, Florida, Santa Rosa county.
Service era: Vietnam
Date of death: Saturday, July 11, 1970
Source: National Archives