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Published: Aug 24, 2008 12:30 AM
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U.S. deaths

 

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Identifications reported last week by the military:

* Marine Lance Cpl. Travis M. Stottlemyer, 20, Hatfield, Pa.; died Aug. 17 after a nonhostile incident in Manama, Bahrain; assigned to the 3rd Fleet Antiterrorism Security Team Company, Marine Corps Security Forces, Norfolk, Va.

* Army Pvt. Janelle F. King, 23, Merced, Calif.; died Aug. 14 in Baghdad of wounds from a noncombat incident; assigned to the 115th Combat Support Hospital, Fort Polk, La.

* Army Pfc. Jonathan L. Luscher, 20, Scranton, Pa.; died Aug. 17 at Forward Operating Base Mehtar Lam, Afghanistan, of injuries from a noncombat incident; assigned to the 1st Battalion, 109th Infantry, Pennsylvania Army National Guard, Scranton, Pa.

* Army Staff Sgt. Kristopher D. Rodgers, 29, Sturgis, Mich.; killed Aug. 16 in the Korengal Valley, Afghanistan, when an explosive detonated near his vehicle; assigned to the 1st Battalion, 26th Infantry Regiment, 3rd Brigade Combat Team, 1st Infantry Division, Fort Hood, Texas.

* Army 1st Lt. Donald C. Carwile, 29, Oxford, Va., and Pfc. Paul E. Conlon Jr., 21, Somerville, Mass; died Aug. 15 in Wardak province, Afghanistan, when their vehicle struck an explosive, then received small-arms and rocket-propelled grenade fire; assigned to the 1st Battalion, 506th Infantry Regiment, 4th Brigade Combat Team, 101st Airborne Division (Air Assault), Fort Campbell, Ky.

* Marine Lance Cpl. Jacob J. Toves, 27, Grover Beach, Calif.; Cpl. Anthony G. Mihalo, 23, Naperville, Ill.; and Lance Cpl. Juan Lopez-Castaneda, 19, Mesa, Ariz.; died Aug. 14 while supporting combat operations in Helmand province, Afghanistan. Toves was assigned to the 3rd Combat Engineer Battalion, 3rd Marine Division, III Marine Expeditionary Force, Okinawa, Japan. Mihalo and Lopez-Castaneda were assigned to the 2nd Battalion, 7th Marine Regiment, 1st Marine Division, I Marine Expeditionary Force, Twentynine Palms, Calif.

* Army Sgt. 1st Class David J. Todd Jr., 36, Marrero, La.; killed Wednesday in Bala Morghab, Afghanistan, by small-arms fire; assigned to the Afghan Regional Security Integration Command-West, Herat, Afghanistan.

* Marine Sgt. 1st Class George Stanciel, 40, Greenwood, Miss.; died Tuesday at Forward Operating Base Gary Owen, Iraq, of wounds suffered when the base came under mortar attack; assigned to the 370th Engineer Company, 54th Engineer Battalion, 18th Engineer Brigade, Bamberg, Germany.

* Marine Sgt. Nickolas Lee Hopper, 27, Montrose, Ill.; died Sept. 8, 2007, from wounds received in Anbar province, Iraq, on June 20, 2005; assigned to the 2nd Low Altitude Air Defense Battalion, Marine Air Control Group-28, 2nd Marine Aircraft Wing, II Marine Expeditionary Force, Cherry Point, N.C.

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