Jose Luis Ruiz, age 28, from Brentwood, New York, Suffolk county.
Service era: Iraq
Military history: Company A, 3D Battalion, 21St Infantry, (Tf Olympia) Fort Lewis, Washington
Date of death: Monday, August 15, 2005
Death details: Hostile; Mosul, Iraq
Source: Department of Defense, Military Times
Arthur Edward McLeod, age 24, from Bay Shore, New York, Suffolk county.
Service era: Vietnam
Date of death: Friday, February 12, 1971
Death details: On August 6, 1999, Joint Task Force-Full Accounting (JTF-FA, now DPAA) identified the remains of Chief Warrant Officer Arthur Edward McLeod, missing from the Vietnam War.
Chief Warrant Officer McLeod joined the U.S. Army from New York and was a member of Troop C, 17th Cavalry Regiment, 101st Airborne Division. On February 12, 1971, he piloted an AH-1G Cobra on an armed reconnaissance mission near Quang Tri, South Vietnam. During the mission, the helicopter was hit and damaged by enemy ground fire; the crew attempted to return to base at Khe Sanh, but the aircraft caught fire en route, then crashed and exploded when the crew attempted an emergency landing. Chief Warrant Officer McLeod was killed in the incident, and his remains could not be recovered at the time. In the 1990s, joint search teams revisited the crash site and recovered remains which were later identified as those of CWO McLeod.
Source: National Archives, Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency, findagrave.com