At least 61 Idahoans, including three civilians, have been killed or died since the start of U.S. military actions following Sept. 11, 2001.
- Air Force Master Sgt. Evander Andrews, 36, of Mountain Home, died on Oct. 10, 2001, in a forklift accident while building an airstrip in Qatar.
- Air National Guard Maj. Gregory Stone, 40, of Boise, died March 25, 2003, in a grenade attack by another U.S. serviceman at his base camp in Kuwait.
- Army Cpl. Richard P. Carl, 26, of King Hill, died May 9, 2003, in a helicopter crash near Samarrah, Iraq.
- Army Spec. Zeferino E. Colunga, 20, formerly of Emmett, died from an illness on Aug. 6, 2003 in Germany after being evacuated from an Iraqi hospital. Colunga was assigned to the 4th Squadron, 2nd Armored Calvary Regiment, Fort Polk, La.
- Richard Hooper, a civilian Arab specialist who grew up in Boise, died in the Aug. 19, 2003, bombing of the U.N. headquarters building in Baghdad, Iraq.
- Army Spc. Robert T. Benson, 20, died of a non-hostile gunshot wound at a checkpoint in Iraq on Nov. 4, 2003. Benson was born in Coeur dAlene. He was assigned to Company A, 1st Battalion, 35th Armored Regiment, 1st Armored Division in Smith Barracks, Germany.
- Army Capt. James A. Shull, 32, formerly of Kamiah, died Nov. 17, 2003, in Baghdad, the victim of non-hostile gunshot wounds.
- Army Pfc. Jerrick M. Petty, 25, of Idaho Falls, died Dec. 10, 2003, in a firefight in Mosul, Iraq.
- Army Pfc. Cleston Raney, 20, of Rupert, died March 31, 2004, with four other soldiers when a bomb exploded under his armored personnel carrier near Habbaniyah, Iraq.
- Marine Pfc. Chris Reed, 20, of Cottonwood, died in July 2004 when the vehicle he was riding in overturned near Fallujah, Iraq.
- Rick Alan Ulbright, 49, of Boise, died Aug. 8, 2004, at Kirkuk Air Base, Iraq, from wounds received during a mortar attack. Ulbright was a civilian special agent.
- Army Spec. Brandon Titus, 20, of Boise, was killed Aug. 17, 2004, when a roadside bomb detonated near his Baghdad checkpoint.
- Marine Capt. Alan Blake Rowe, 35, of Gooding, died Sept. 3, 2004, when a bomb went off as he returned from inspecting a bridge in al-Anbar Province, Iraq.
- Army Capt. Eric L. Allton, 34, of Boise, died in September 2004 when he was hit by a mortar in Ar Ramadi, Iraq.
- Army 1st Lt. Luke C. Wullenwaber, 24, of Lewiston, was killed in November 2004 by a suicide bomber in Khaladiyah, Iraq.
- Army Staff Sgt. Darren VanKomen, 33, was killed in a suicide bomb attack on a mess tent in Mosul in December 2004. He grew up in Lewiston.
- Army Sgt. Kelly S. Morris, 24, of Boise, was killed by small arms fire March 30, 2005, while patrolling in east Baghdad.
- Army Sgt. John B. Ogburn III, 45, of Fruitland, died May 22, 2005, in a Humvee accident near Kirkuk.
- Army Staff Sgt. Virgil R. Case, 37, of Mountain Home, died in Kirkuk June 1, 2005, of non-combat-related injuries.
- Army Spec.Carrie French, 19, of Caldwell, died June 5, 2005 in Kirkuk when her vehicle hit a roadside bomb.
- Marine Lance Cpl. Dustin V. Birch, 22, of St. Anthony, was one of five Marines killed by a roadside bomb June 9, 2005, in Haqlaniyah, Iraq.
- Army Sgt. Ivan Vargas Alarcon, 23, of Jerome, died Nov. 17, 2005, in Tal-Afar, Iraq, when the Humvee he was riding in flipped during combat operations.
- Air Force Technical Sgt. Walter M. Moss Jr., 37, of Mountain Home, assigned to the 366th Civil Engineering Squadron, Mountain Home AFB. He died March 29, 2006, while trying to defuse a bomb near Baghdad.
- Army Pfc. Jacob H. Allcott, 21, of Caldwell, was one of four soldiers killed when a roadside bomb exploded in Baghdad on April 22, 2006.
- Army Sgt. Jeremy E. King, 23, of Meridian, died Aug. 24, 2006, in Baghdad after being shot during combat. It was his second tour in Iraq.
- Army Spc. James D. Riekena, 22, was killed Jan. 14, 2007, when a roadside bomb exploded near his Humvee in Baghdad. He was assigned to the 145th Brigade Support Battalion in Post Falls, Idaho. It was his second tour in Iraq.
- Army Spc. James Lee Bridges, 22, of Buhl, was killed by enemy small-arms fire while on patrol in Baghdad, Nov. 4, 2006.
- Three Army Reserve soldiers, all Idahoans based in Boise with the 321st Engineer Battalion, were killed by a roadside bomb in al-Anbar Province Feb. 8, 2007:
- Private 1st Class Raymond M. Werner, 21, of Boise.
- Sgt. James Holtom, 22, whose parents live in Rexburg.
- Sgt. Ross A. Clevenger, 22, whose mother lives in Melba.
- Sgt. Emerson N. Brand, 29, of Rigby, was among four soldiers killed in Baghdad March 15, 2007, when an improvised explosive device detonated.
- Naval Petty Officer Curtis Hall, 24, of Burley, was killed by a roadside bomb April 6, 2007, while riding in a Humvee.
- Naval Comm. Philip A. Murphy-Sweet, 42, of Caldwell, was killed April 7, 2007, in a roadside bomb attack in Baghdad.
- Army Paratrooper Pfc. John Borbonus, 19, of Boise, was killed by a car bomb in Baghdad April 12, 2007.
- Two Army reserve soldiers with Company B, 321st Engineer Battalion based in Hayden Lake were killed by a roadside bomb in Ramadi, Iraq on May 3, 2007:
- Spc. Kelly Grothe, 21, from Spokane, Wash.
- Staff Sgt. Coby G. Schwab, 25, of Puyallup, Wash.
- Army Sgt. Blake C. Stephens, 25, of Pocatello, was killed on May 8, 2007, in a roadside bomb attack in Salman Pak, Iraq.
- Sgt. Maj. Bradly D. Conner, 41, of Coeur d'Alene, died May 9, 2007, near Al-Hillah when a roadside bomb exploded near his vehicle. He was a member of Army Special Forces at Fort Lewis, Wash.
- Army Pfc. Charles B. Hester, 23, formerly of Cataldo, died in Baghdad when his vehicle was hit by a roadside bomb on May 26, 2007. Hester was serving with the Stryker Brigade Combat Team of Fort Lewis, Wash.
- Army Pfc. Shane M. Stinson, 23, formerly of Boise, was killed June 23, 2007, by an IED and small arms fire in Baghdad. Stinson was serving with the 3rdBrigade Combat Team from Fort Benning,Ga.
- Army Pfc. Adam J. Davis, 19, of Jerome, was killed July 23, 2007, by an IED inSarobi District,Afghanistan. He was assigned to the173rd Airborne Brigade Combat Team out of Vicenza, Italy.
- Army Sgt. Nicholas A. Gummersall, 23, of Pocatello, was killed in Baqubah, Iraq, on Aug. 6, 2007, when the building he was in was destroyed by a bomb. Gummersall was assigned to the Stryker Brigade Combat Team of Fort Lewis, Wash.
- Army Sgt. Joshua Morley, 22, was killed on Aug. 26, 2007, in Samarra, Iraq, during an insurgent attack with small arms and hand grenades. He served with the 2nd Battalion, 505th Parachute Infantry regiment, 3rd Brigade Combat Team, 82nd Airborne Div.
- Army Spc. Vincent Kamka, 23, formerly of Idaho Falls, died in Bayji, Iraq, on Oct. 4, 2007, in a non-combat-related incident. He was assigned to the 82nd Airborne Division based out of Fort Bragg, N.C.
- Former Marine Cpl. Dane R. Mortensen, 23, of Boise, died on Nov. 25, 2007, in a vehicle accident escorting a convoy while working for a British security firm in Iraq.
- Maj. Stuart A. Wolfer, 36, of Emmett, was killed April 6, 2008, in a rocket attack in the Green Zone of Baghdad. He was a logistics officer assigned to the 11th Battalion, 104th Division out of Boise.
- Sgt. Michael T. Lilly, 23, of Boise, was killed April 7, 2008, during fighting in Sadr City, Iraq. He was an infantryman with the 1st Squadron, 2nd Stryker Cavalry Regiment, out of Vilseck, Germany.
- Army Cpl. Jessica A. Ellis, 24, was killed May 11, 2008, by a roadside bomb in Baghdad, Iraq. Ellis was a combat medic with the 2nd Brigade Combat Team, 101 Airborne Division out of Fort Campbell, Ky. Ellis lived in Bend, Ore., but was born in Burley and lived in Boise and Twin Falls. It was her second deployment.
- Lt. Col. Joseph A. Moore, 54, of Boise, died of natural causes in Djibouti on May 20, 2008. Moore served with 124th Wing of Idaho Air National Guard.
- U.S. Army Spc. Randy L.J. Neff Jr., 22, formerly of Blackfoot, died in Zabul Province, Afghanistan, July 22, 2009, after an IED detonated near his vehicle. Neff was with the 4th Engineer Battalion of Fort Carson, Colo.
- U.S. Air Force Senior Airman Matthew R. Courtois, 22, of Lucas, Texas, died Sept. 20, 2009 during a non-hostile incident on Abdullah Al Mubarak Airbase in Kuwait. He was assigned to the 366th Security Forces Squadron of Mountain Home Air Force Base.
- Army Sgt. Joshua J. Kirk, 30, of Maine, died on Oct. 3, 2009, in an indirect fire and rocket-propelled grenade attack in Kamdesh, Afghanistan. He was assigned ot the 3rd Squadron, 61st Cavalry Regiment, 4th Brigade Combat Team out of Fort Carson, Colo. He lived in Idaho as a child and has family in Bonners Ferry.
- Army Chief Warrant Officer Matthew C. Heffelfinger, 29, of Kimberly, was killed Nov. 8, 2009, in a helicopter crash near Tikrit, Iraq.
- Marine Lance Cpl. Cody A. Roberts, 22, of Boise, died Aug. 3, 2010, while supporting combat operations in Helmand province, Afghanistan. He was assigned to 2nd Battalion, 6th Marine Regiment, 2nd Marine Division, II Marine Expeditionary Force, Camp Lejeune, N.C.
- Army Pfc. Robert J. Near, 21, a Nampa Centennial Jobs Corps graduate, of Granger, Wash., died Jan. 7, 2011, in Kandahar, Afghanistan. He was assigned to the 86th Signal Battalion, Fort Huachuca, Ariz.
- Two Army soldiers from Coeur dAlene serving with the 116th Cavalry Brigade Combat Team, 145th Brigade Support Battalion, were killed in Baghdad, Iraq by a roadside bomb on July 7, 2011. The deaths marked the first casualties for the 116th in the 2010-2011 deployment. A third soldier lost both legs.
- Spc. Nicholas W. Newby, 20.
- Sgt. Nathan R. Beyers, 24.
- Army Sgt. Devin Daniels, 22, of Council and Eagle, was killed by a roadside bomb in Helmand province, Afghanistan on Aug. 25, 2011. Beyers was assigned to the 546th Transportation Company, 82nd Sustainment Brigade, XVIII Airborne Corps out of Fort Bragg, N.C.
- U.S. Army Spc. Robert E. Dyas, 21, of Nampa, was killed by small arms fire during combat in Kandahar Province, Afghanistan on Sept. 21, 2011. Dyas served with the 34th Armor Regiment, 1st Brigade Combat Team, 1st Infantry Division, out of Fort Riley, Kansas.
- U.S. Army Sgt. Ryan Sharp, 28, of Idaho Falls died Dec. 3, 2011 in Landstuhl, Germany. He was wounded by a roadside bomb on Nov. 21, 2011 while on patrol in Kandahar province in Afghanistan. Sharp was assigned to the 2nd Battalion, 34th Armored Regiment of the 1st Infantry Division's 1st Heavy Brigade Combat Team. He was on his third deployment.
- Marine Lance Cpl. Kenneth E. Cochran, 20, of Wilder died Jan. 15, 2012, conducting combat operations in the Helmand province, Afghanistan. Cochran was assigned to the 9th Engineer Support Battalion, 3rd Marine Logistics Group, III Marine Expeditionary Force out of Okinawa, Japan.













