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® 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 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, who was assigned to the 366th Civil Engineering Squadron at Mountain Home AFB, was killed March 29, 2006, while trying to defuse a homemade 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 from injuries after being shot during combat. It was his second tour in Iraq.
® Army Spc. James Lee Bridges, 22, of Buhl, was killed Nov. 4, 2006, by enemy small-arms fire while on patrol in Baghdad.
® 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 on 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 April 12, 2007, by a car bomb in Baghdad.
® 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. He was a member of Army special forces stationed 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 improvised explosive device and small arms fire in Baghdad. Stinson was serving with the 3rd Brigade Combat Team from Fort Benning, Georgia.
® Army Pfc. Adam J. Davis, 19, of Jerome, was killed July 23, 2007, by an improvised explosive device in Sarobi 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 out of Fort Lewis, Wash.
® 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.
® 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 improvised explosive device detonated near his vehicle. Neff was with the 4th Engineer Battalion out 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 Chief Warrant Officer Mathew C. Heffelfinger, 29, of Kimberly, was killed Nov. 8, 2009, in a helicopter crash near Tikrit.
Chief Warrant Officer Mathew C. Heffelfinger is among at least 46 Idahoans, including three civilians, who have died since the start of U.S. military actions after Sept. 11, 2001.
Heffelfinger was buried Friday in Twin Falls after funeral services in Kimberly. He was posthumously awarded the Bronze Star medal.
Heffelfinger was 29 years old when he died in a Kiowa helicopter crash in the Iraqi city of Tikrit on Nov. 8.
Another pilot, Chief Warrant officer Earl Scott III, 24, of Florida also died in the crash. The two were assigned to the 2nd Squadron, 6th Cavalry regiment, 25th Combat Aviation Brigade, 25th Infantry Division.
Earlier this month, Heffelfinger's wife, Tanya, thanked the community for its support.
"It is greatly appreciated ... to know how much everyone loved and respected Matt," she said.
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