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Mark Carlyle Warren, age 44, from La Grande, Oregon, Union county.
Service era: Iraq
Military history: Hhc, 3D Battalion, 116Th Armored Cavalry (Tf Olympia), Ontario, Or
Date of death: Monday, January 31, 2005
Death details: Kirkuk Air Base, Iraq
Source: Department of Defense, Military Times
Michael George Hoff, age 33, from La Grande, Oregon, Union county.
Service era: Vietnam
Date of death: Wednesday, January 7, 1970
Death details: Lieutenant Commander Michael George Hoff, who joined the U.S. Navy from Oregon, was a member of Attack Squadron 86. On January 7, 1970, he piloted a single-seat A-7A Corsair II (bureau number 153231) on a ground attack mission in the vicinity of (GC) XD 154 631. While strafing enemy ground targets in the mission area, LCDR Hoff transmitted that his aircraft was hit and he would bail out. His Corsair then crashed and burned nearby. Other pilots on the mission reported seeing evidence that LCDR Hoff had possibly ejected from his aircraft before the crash, although no parachute was seen. A low-level search of the area found small pieces of wreckage, but no sign of LCDR Hoff and the enemy presence in the area prevented ground inspections of the crash site. LCDR Hoff remains unaccounted-for. While carried in the status of MIA, the Navy promoted LCDR Hoff to the rank of Commander (CDR). Today, Commander Hoff is memorialized on the Courts of the Missing at the National Memorial Cemetery of the Pacific.
Source: National Archives, Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency