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Pagan, Bobby J.
Army Specialist

Bobby J. Pagan, age 23, from Austin, Texas, Travis county.

Service era: Afghanistan
Military history: 1st Battalion, 12th Infantry Regiment, 4th Brigade Combat Team, 4th Infantry Division, Fort Carson, Colorado. Enlisted March 2009

Date of death: Saturday, February 13, 2010
Death details: Among three who died of wounds suffered while on foot patrol when suicide bomber on motorcyle attacked them in Zhari Province, Afghanistan.
Cemetery: Assumption Cemetery, Austin

Source: Department of Defense, Lakeland Ledger, WECT

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Sauceda, Oscar Jr
Army Private 2nd class

Oscar Jr Sauceda, age 21, from Del Rio, Texas, Val Verde county.

Service era: Iraq
Military history: Company D, 1St Battalion, 28Th Infantry, 4 Bct, Fort Riley, Kansas

Date of death: Tuesday, May 22, 2007
Death details: Died in Baghdad, Iraq of wounds sustained when his unit came in contact with enemy forces using small arms fire

Source: Department of Defense, Military Times, Washington Post, Legacy

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Tucker, Steven Charles
Army Private 1st class

Steven Charles Tucker, age 19, from Grapevine, Texas, Tarrant county.

Parents: Charlie Tucker and Rowena Tucker
Spouse: None
Children: None

Service era: Iraq
Schools: Colleyville Heritage High (2004)
Military history: A Co, 2Nd Bn, 503D Inf, 173D Airborne, Tf Rock, Camp Ederle, Italy

Date of death: Saturday, May 21, 2005
Death details: Hostile; Kandahar, Afghanistan

Source: Department of Defense, Colleyville Courier, steventuckermemorial.com, Military Times

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Dexter, Ronald James
Army Sergeant major

Ronald James Dexter, age 34, from Abilene, Texas.

Service era: Vietnam

Date of death: Saturday, June 3, 1967
Death details: On June 3, 1967, a CH-46A Sea Knight (bureau number 150955) carrying a crew of six and an unknown number of South Vietnamese personnel took off for an extraction mission in Laos. The aircraft took enemy small arms fire when lifting off from the landing zone and crashed in the vicinity of XD 795 050. One member of the aircraft’s crew was rescued three days later. Two crewmembers, the door gunner and another crewmember, were captured by enemy forces; the door gunner was eventually returned to U.S. custody, at which time he reported that the other crewmember had died during their captivity. The remaining occupants of the Sea Knight were killed in the initial incident, and their remains were recovered and identified following the end of hostilities. Sergeant First Class Ronald James Dexter, who joined the U.S. Army from Texas, was a member of the Command and Control Detachment of the 5th Special Forces Group and was a passenger aboard the Sea Knight when it went down. He was captured following the crash, and reportedly died in captivity on July 29, 1967. Attempts to locate or identify his remains have been unsuccessful. Following the incident, the Army promoted SFC Dexter to the rank of Sergeant Major (SGM). Today, Sergeant Major Dexter is memorialized on the Courts of the Missing at the National Memorial Cemetery of the Pacific.
Cemetery: Memorialized at Zion Lutheran Church in Matteson, Illinois

Source: National Archives, Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency, findagrave.comÂ