Idaho casualties

At least 44 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 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 Spc. Zeferino E. Colunga, 20, formerly of Emmett, died form 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 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 Spc. 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 on June 1, 2005, of non-combat-related injuries.

® Army Spc. 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 who were 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 Tech. Sgt. Walter M. Moss Jr., 37, of Mountain Home, was killed March 29, 2006, trying to defuse a homemade bomb near Baghdad.

® Army Pfc. Jacob H. Allcott, 21, of Caldwell, died April 22, 2006, after a roadside bomb exploded in Baghdad.

® Army Sgt. Jeremy E. King, 23, of Meridian, died Aug. 24, 2006, in Baghdad from injuries after being shot during combat.

® Army Spc. James Lee Bridges, 22, of Buhl, was killed by enemy small-arms fire on patrol in Baghdad, Nov. 4, 2006.

® Three Army Reserve soldiers, all Idahoans based in Boise, were killed by a roadside bomb in al-Anbar Province Feb. 8, 2007: Pfc. Raymond M. Werner, 21, of Boise; Sgt. James Holtom, 22, whose parents live in Rexburg; and 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 Cmdr. Philip A. Murphy-Sweet, 42, was killed April 7, 2007, in a roadside bomb attack in Baghdad. Sweet was born and raised in Caldwell.

® Army Paratrooper Pfc. John Borbonus, 19, of Boise, was killed by a car bomb in Baghdad April 12, 2007.

® Army Sgt. Blake C. Stephens, 25, of Pocatello, was killed on May 8, 2007, in a roadside bomb attack in Salman Pak.

® 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.

® 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.

® Army Pfc. Shane M. Stinson, 23, formerly of Boise, was killed June 23, 2007 by improvised explosive device and small arms fire in Baghdad, Iraq.

® Army Pfc. Adam J. Davis, 19, of Jerome, was killed July 23, 2007, by an improvised explosive device in Sarobi District, Afghanistan.

® 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.

® Army Spc. Vincent Kamka, 23, formerly of Idaho Falls, died in Bayji, Iraq, on Oct. 4, 2007, in a non-combat related incident.

® 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.

® Sgt. Michael T. Lilly, 23, of Boise, was killed April 7, 2008, during fighting in Sadr City, Iraq.

® Idaho Air National Guard Lt. Col. Joseph A. Moore, 54, of Boise, died of natural causes in Djibouti on May 20, 2008..

® Army Spc. Randy L.J. Neff Jr., 22, formerly of Blackfoot, died in Zabul Province, Afghanistan July 22, 2009, after an improvised explosive device detonated near his vehicle.

- Statesman staff