Monday, October 02, 2006 5:30 AM - CENTCOM's headquarters in Iraq, MNF-Iraq, is reporting the deaths of three U.S. Marines on October 1st in the Al Anbar Province. Two Marines died from enemy action. One was killed in a vehicle accident.

Monday, October 02, 2006 6:00 AM - The British Ministry of Defense has announced the death of one of their soldiers in an indirect fire attack on the Shaat Al Arab Hotel base in Basra City on October 1st. The BBC is reporting that some 15 mortars were fired at the base, three or four landing inside the perimeter. One other soldier was seriously wounded in the attack.

Monday, October 02, 2006 12:20 PM -
	(1) MNF-Iraq is reporting the death of a soldier on October 1st when his vehicle was hit by a roadside bomb west of Baghdad.
	(2) MNF-Iraq is also reporting the death of a soldier on October 2nd from a small arms fire attack in central Baghdad.

Monday, October 02, 2006 12:43 PM - The South Bend Tribune is reporting the death of Marine Reservist Aaron Seal, 23, of Elkhart, Indiana, on October 1st from sniper fire. He was with Company B of the 6th Engineer Support Battalion based in South Bend, which was recently deployed to Iraq.

Tuesday, October 03, 2006 5:12 AM -
	(1) The British Ministry of Defense has identified the soldier who died in a mortar attack on his base in northern Basrah on October 1st: Lance Corporal Dennis Brady, 37, of Barrow-in-Furness in Cumbria, England. The article identifies him as a reservist who had left the regular army in 2004 and had volunteered for duty in both Afghanistan and Iraq.
	(2) MNF-Iraq is reporting the death of a "Multi-National Corps - Iraq separate brigade Soldier" from small arms fire in northern Baghdad on October 2nd.
	(3) MNF-Iraq is also reporting the death of a soldier from small arms fire in southwest Baghdad on October 2nd.

Tuesday, October 03, 2006 6:00 AM -
	(1) MNF-Iraq is reporting the death of a U.S. Marine from enemy action in the western half of Al Anbar Province on October 1st. This is in addition to the 3 other Marines already reported dead on that date.
	(2) CENTCOM is reporting that four U.S. soldiers were killed by an improvised explosive device northwest of Baghdad on October 2nd.

Tuesday, October 03, 2006 6:37 AM - CENTCOM is reporting one more death on October 2nd: a small arms fire death in northern Baghdad. This one occurred at 11:05 AM.

Tuesday, October 03, 2006 12:37 PM -
	(1) The Hartford Herald Courant has a detailed report out on a death and three serious injuries that occurred this weekend to the Marine Reserve unit Charlie Company, 1st Battalion, 25th Marine Regiment, 4th Marine Division, currently serving in Fallujah. The dead man was identified as Lance Corporal Christopher Benedict Cosgrove III, 23, of Cedar Knolls, New Jersey. He was killed when a suicide car bomber drove up to Cosgrove's checkpoint in northeast Fallujah and detonated his payload. This particular unit lost two men in Fallujah on September 4th. At that time CENTCOM described the unit as being attached to Regimental Combat Team 5. Because of this, we now believe that Cosgrove was the Regimental Combat Team 5 death described in this CENTCOM release.
	(2) The DoD has confirmed the death of Marine Reserve Corporal Aaron L. Seal, 23, of Elkhart, Indiana, on October 1st. His unit, B Company of the 6th Engineer Support Battalion, a reserve unit out of South Bend, Indiana, is based at Camp Taqaddum near Habbaniyah. He could very well have been the "Marine assigned to 1st Marine Expeditionary Force Headquarters Group" who died in combat as described in this CENTCOM release. A short news item on Seal's death appears at the WNDU-TV website.

Tuesday, October 03, 2006 5:24 PM -
	(1) The DoD has confirmed the death of Marine Reserve Lance Corporal Christopher B. Cosgrove III, 23, of Cedar Knolls, New Jersey, in the Al Anbar Province on October 1st from enemy action.
	(2) The DoD has identified the soldier who died in an IED attack west of Baghdad on October 1st: Corporal Chase A. Haag, 22, of Portland, Oregon.  KATU Portland has published a nice story with details about Chase's life, family and friends.  Haag was "enamored with video production, direction and editing.  In a class of 30, he produced and directed a monthly news magazine for students."
Chase A. Haag, 22, Portland, Oregon
	(3) The DoD has also identified one of the four soldiers killed by small arms fire in Baghdad on October 2nd: Staff Sergeant Joe A. Narvaez, 25, of San Antonio, Texas. His assigned unit, the 1st Battalion of the 26th Infantry Regiment based out of Schweinfurt, Germany, was newly arrived in Iraq last August and split between FOB Rustamiyah and FOB Loyalty, both bases in eastern Baghdad. For that reason, we are inclined to believe him to be the central Baghdad death reported by CENTCOM in this news release. This could change, however, as the identities of the other deaths that day are released.
	(4) The DoD has announced a new death on October 1st, not previously reported by CENTCOM or the news media. Army Sergeant Mario Nelson, 26, of Brooklyn, New York, was killed when a rocket propelled grenade exploded near his vehicle in the vicinity of Hit in the Al Anbar Province.
	(5) The Associated Press is reporting the death of a female soldier in Kuwait on October 1st of a non-hostile cause. No further details are apparently available at this time.

Tuesday, October 03, 2006 6:48 PM - The DoD has identified another one of the four soldiers killed by small arms fire in the Baghdad area on October 2nd: Private 1st Class Satieon V. Greenlee, 24, of Pendleton, South Carolina. His unit, the 4th Battalion of the 31st Infantry Regiment out of Fort Drum, New York, experienced another death on September 19th ... Cpl. Robert Callahan, who died in a vehicle accident in southwest Baghdad. Thus, it is likely that Pfc. Greenlee was the small arms fire death in "southwest Baghdad" described in this CENTCOM release.

Wednesday, October 04, 2006 2:31 AM -
	(1) The DoD has released the identity of the third soldier killed by small arms fire in Baghdad on October 2nd: Private 1st Class Michael K. Oremus, 21, of Highland, New York. An article in the Poughkeepsie Journal provides some background on the young man, the third soldier from the small community of Highland to die in Iraq.
Michael K. Oremus, 21, Highland, New York
	(2) MNF-Iraq is reporting the death of a Task Force Lightning soldier in what would appear to be a small arms fire attack near Kirkuk on October 3rd.

Wednesday, October 04, 2006 5:13 AM - MNF-Iraq is reporting the death of yet another soldier by small arms fire in the Baghdad area ... this one in east Baghdad on October 3rd.

Wednesday, October 04, 2006 10:48 AM -
	(1) The DoD has identified the Marine who died in a non-hostile vehicle accident in Al Anbar Province on October 1st: Captain Justin D. Peterson, 32, of Davisburg, Michigan.
Justin D. Peterson, 32, Davisburg, Michigan
	(2) The DoD has also identified the soldier who died in a non-hostile unspecified incident at Camp Arifjan in Kuwait on October 1st: Sergeant Denise A. Lannaman, 46, of Bayside, New York. (See media report and photo below.)

Wednesday, October 04, 2006 1:25 PM - MNF-Iraq has just announced the deaths of four U.S. soldiers on October 4th in a small arms fire and mortar attack northwest of Baghdad ... the same area in which four soldiers died October 2nd in an IED attack.

Wednesday, October 04, 2006 4:50 PM - The DoD has identified the last of the four soldiers who were killed in Baghdad by small arms fire on October 2nd: Sergeant Joseph W. Perry, 23, of Alpine, California. He definitely died in the Baghdad area. His unit, the 21st Military Police Company, worked throughout central and southern Baghdad training Iraqi police officers.

Thursday, October 05, 2006 3:35 AM - The DoD has released the identity of the soldier who died in a small arms fire attack in east Baghdad on October 3rd: Staff Sergeant Jonathan Rojas, 27, of Hammond, Indiana. The Gary Post Tribune revealed this morning that the sergeant should have gone home two months ago, but had his stay in Iraq extended along with the rest of his 172nd Stryker Brigade Combat Team out of Fort Wainwright, Alaska. On Tuesday of this week, he was shot in the head by a sniper and killed.

Thursday, October 05, 2006 5:05 AM - The New York Daily News has a few more details on Sergeant Denise Lannaman, 46, of Queens Village, New York, who died at Camp Arifjan in Kuwait on October 1st. She grew up in Jamaica, but immigrated to the U.S. and served several years in the U.S. Navy before returning to the island. She came back, however, after September 11, 2001, and signed on with the Army National Guard in New York. She was "an electrician and mechanic who could repair almost anything." At present, the details of her death are not known, not even to her family. (See DoD release above.)

Denise Lannaman, 46 Queens Village, New York

	Thursday, October 05, 2006 9:57 AM - The DoD has released the identity of the soldier who was wounded near Kirkuk on October 3rd in a small arms fire attack and later died: Staff Sergeant Daniel Isshak, 25, of Alta Loma, California. Apparently, the incident happened near Hawijah, which is about half way between Bayji and Kirkuk, but the sergeant made it to military medical facilities in Tikrit before he succumbed to his injuries.
Daniel Isshak, at age 7, Alta Loma, California		Daniel Isshak funeral, Anaheim, California
October 10, 2006 - Excerpts from The Orange County Register account of Daniel Isshak's funeral and Muslim burial in Westminster Memorial Park, in Anaheim, CA, where he spent his childhood: After the family moved to Alta Loma in 1992, they stayed involved in the local Circassian community. About 1,000 Circassians – Muslims who originated from southern Russia – live in Orange County, CA. Isshak took Circassian language and dance classes when he was a child and teenager.

Thursday, October 05, 2006 1:18 PM - MNF-Iraq is reporting the deaths of two U.S. Marines from enemy action in the Al Anbar Province on October 4th.

Thursday, October 05, 2006 4:37 PM -
	(1) Slowly, details are beginning to surface in the news media about the 4 deaths from an IED attack northwest of Baghdad on October 2nd ... and the 4 from a small arms attack in the same area on October 4th. HOI News Online in Illinois is reporting the names of two Illinoians who attended the same high school together, joined the army under the "buddy program" together, and who died in Baghdad within 2 days of each other: 20 year old Specialist Kristoffer Walker and 20 year old Specialist George Obourn, Jr., both originally from Creve Coeur, Illinois. It is believed that Walker died in the IED attack on the 2nd, and Obourn when the building he was in, a warehouse, was mortared and attacked by small arms fire on the 4th.
		George Obourn, Jr., 20 Creve Coeur, Illinois
	(2) In addition, the Oregon News Review is reporting the death of Army Private 1st Class Dean Robert Bright, 32, of Sutherlin, Oregon, in the warehouse attack on October 4th. This article identifies the unit involved as the 4th Infantry Division out of Fort Hood, Texas.

Friday, October 06, 2006 6:08 AM -
	(1) The DoD has announced the identities of the two Marines who died in enemy action in the Al Anbar Province on October 4th:
	Lance Corporal Edward M. Garvin, 19, Malden, Mass.
	Corporal Benjamin S. Rosales, 20, of Houston, Texas
	(2) The South Florida News-Press is reporting the name of another of the four soldiers who died just northwest of Baghdad in Taji on October 4th: Specialist Timothy Burke, 24, of Hollywood, Florida. This item also gives more information about the unit involved: B Troop of the 7th Squadron, 10th Cavalry Regiment, 1st Brigade, 4th Infantry Division out of Fort Hood, Texas.
		Timothy Burke and Family
	(3) The Danish Ministry of Defense has announced the death of one of their soldiers in Iraq on the evening of October 5th. Roughly, the news release indicates that a Danish unit was involved in an operation Thursday evening to stop a group of insurgents who had been rocketting and mortaring the Danish and British camps in southern Iraq. The Danish soldier was gravely injured in that effort. He was transported by helicopter to a British field hospital where he died from his wounds. His relatives have been notified, but his name does not appear to have been released yet. The Associated Press has a brief article on the death here.

Friday, October 06, 2006 6:35 AM - According to this article in The International News, the Danish soldier who died on October 4th was initially wounded in a mortar attack in Al Harthah near Basrah in Basrah Province.

Friday, October 06, 2006 10:37 AM - Ekstra Bladet, a Danish media source, is reporting the name of the Danish soldier who died in Iraq on October 5th: Martin Hjorth, 20, of the Sjælland region in Denmark. Also, the Danish news service TV2 Nyhederne has more information. Roughly translated, this article says that Hjorth died of serious injuries he received in a firefight at Al Hartha near Basra, this according to a statement issued by the Danish Army Command on the morning of October 6th. No other Danish forces were hurt in the incident. Hjorth was a konstabel (private) assigned to the Jydske Dragonregiment (Jutland Dragoon Regiment), one of two Danish cavalry units, based in Holstebro, Denmark. He is the sixth Danish serviceman to die in Iraq.

Martin Hjorth, 20, Sjælland region, Denmark

Saturday, October 07, 2006 5:20 AM -
	(1) MNF-Iraq is reporting the death of an 82nd Airborne Division soldier out of Fort Bragg, NC, due to enemy action near the city of Bayji on October 6th.
	(2) The South Mississippi Sun Herald is reporting the death of Army Staff Sergeant James Ellis, 25, of Yazoo City, Mississippi. According to the article, he was one of the four soldiers who died in an IED blast in Baghdad earlier this week (the article gives the date as Tuesday, the 3rd, but CENTCOM has reported the date as Monday, the 2nd). In this case, the soldier's unit is given: the 7th Squadron, 10th Cavalry Regiment, 4th Infantry Division out of Fort Hood, TX. That means that this particular unit has suffered 8 deaths this past week, including the 4 who died on Wednesday, the 4th.
James D. Ellis, 25, Yazoo City, Mississippi,

Sunday, October 08, 2006 4:33 AM -
	(1) MNF-Iraq is reporting the death of a soldier on October 7th from a small arms fire attack northwest of Baghdad.
	(2) MNF-Iraq is also reporting the death of a 3rd Stryker Brigade Combat Team soldier based out of Fort Lewis, WA. The incident occurred on October 7th and involved an IED. The place of death is not specifically given although the press release was by-lined "Mosul".

Sunday, October 08, 2006 5:32 AM - WSFA-TV out of Montgomery, Alabama, is reporting the death of a local Marine: Brad Payne. Details are sketchy. But the death must have occurred very close to  October 6th as that is the date that his parents were notified (we are putting him into the database on the 6th for now, but will correct this if necessary as more details emerge). The article attributes his death to a roadside bomb. Payne's wife is currently living in North Carolina, a good indication that he was based at Camp Lejeune. (MNF announcement below.)

Brad Payne, 24, Montgomery, Alabama

Sunday, October 08, 2006 11:32 AM - The DoD has released the identities of the four soldiers who died together when an improvised explosive device hit their vehicle just northwest of Baghdad in the vicinity of Taji Air Base on October 2nd:
	Staff Sergeant James D. Ellis, 25, of Valdosta, Georgia (actually the media says he grew up in Yazoo City, Mississippi)
	Specialist Raymond S. Armijo, 22, of Phoenix, Arizona
Santos Raymond Armijo "Bear," 22, Phoenix, Arizona
	Specialist Justin R. Jarrett, 21, of Jonesboro, Georgia
	Specialist Kristofer C. Walker, 20, of Creve Coeur, Illinois

Sunday, October 08, 2006 2:27 PM -
	(1) MNF-Iraq is announcing the deaths of three U.S. Marines from enemy action in the Al Anbar Province on October 6th. Earlier today, we learned of the death of Marine Brad Payne, a death that appeared to have occurred right about the 6th. It seems likely now that Payne was one these three Marine deaths. (Media article and photo above.)
	(2) An Associated Press article would seem to indicate that the death of the 3rd Stryker Brigade soldier on October 7th did indeed occur in the Mosul area.

Monday, October 09, 2006 8:08 AM - The Associated Press is reporting the death of a soldier with the 82nd Airborne Division on Friday, October 6th: Corporal Nicholas Arvanitis, 22, of Salem, New Hampshire. From the sounds of the article, he apparently died from enemy small arms fire, and is likely the death that CENTCOM reported in this release.

Monday, October 9, 2006 10:33 AM - Reuters is reporting that military sources are telling them that three U.S. Marines died from enemy action in Al Anbar Province on Sunday, October 8th. They specifically state in their article that these three deaths are in addition to the three Marines who were killed on Friday, the 6th.

Tuesday, October 10, 2006 7:59 AM -
	(1) CENTCOM is reporting the death of a Task Force Lightning soldier on October 8th from an explosion north of Tikrit.
	(2) CENTCOM is also reporting the death of a U.S. soldier from small arms fire on October 10th in eastern Baghdad.
	(3) The Shreveport Times is announcing the death of a local Marine in an IED attack in Iraq. Lance Corporal John Edward Hale died on Friday, October 6th, in the Al Anbar Province. He is likely one of the three Marines who died that day in one attack.

Tuesday, October 10, 2006 10:40 AM -
	(1) The DoD has officially released the names of the four soldiers who died on October 4th when their unit was attacked with small arms fire and other weapons just northwest of Baghdad in the vicinity of the Taji Air Base:
		Private 1st Class Dean R. Bright, 32, of Roseburg, Oregon
		Specialist Timothy R. Burke, 24, of Hollywood, Florida
		Staff Sergeant Christopher O. Moudry, 31, of Baltimore, Maryland
		Specialist George R. Obourn Jr., 20, of Creve Coeur, Illinois
	(2) The DoD has confirmed the death of Corporal Nicholas A. Arvanitis, 22, of Salem, New Hampshire, on October 6th near Bayji from a small arms fire attack.
	(3) The DoD has identified the soldier who died in Mosul on October 7th from an IED attack on his vehicle: Corporal Carl W. Johnson II, 21, of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

Tuesday, October 10, 2006 11:13 AM - The Richmond Times-Dispatch is reporting the death of a Tazewell, Virginia, native in Iraq on October 7th: Brandon Asbury, 21. The article states that Asbury served with the 4th Infantry Division out of Fort Hood, Texas ... and that he died in Al Anbar Province. This is likely the death "northwest of Baghdad" covered in this CENTCOM release. The boundaries of three provinces ... Baghdad, Salah ad Din and Al Anbar ... come together in that area.

Tuesday, October 10, 2006 3:13 PM - The DoD has announced the death of a soldier in Ramadi from grenade fire on October 8th: Private 1st Class Shane R. Austin, 19, of Edgerton, Kansas. This is apparently a new death, not previously reported by CENTCOM.

Tuesday, October 10, 2006 5:03 PM - The Rustin (Louisiana) Daily Leader is reporting the death of a Summerfield High School graduate in Iraq. The family of 21 year old Lance Corporal Jon Eric Bowman was informed early this morning, October 10th, that he died when his Humvee was hit by an IED. We are guessing at this time that his death date was the 10th, but we will not know for sure until the DoD formally acknowledges his death.

Tuesday, October 10, 2006 5:46 PM - MNF-Iraq has announced the deaths of three more Marines due to enemy action in the Al Anbar Province ... these latest deaths on October 9th. We now believe that Lance Corporal Jon Eric Bowman, whose death was reported a few hours ago in the news media, was one of these Marines. His death date has been changed in our database accordingly.

Tuesday, October 10, 2006 6:48 PM - At this time, we are deleting the death we have had listed on October 1st for which the DoD has issued no name. CENTCOM did issue a legitimate release for it here. But we now believe the release must have been in error. The DoD has seldom waited more than 10 days after a death to release the identity of the victim. Should the DoD provide an identification at some point, we will re-post this death.

Wednesday, October 11, 2006 6:05 AM -
	(1) The Billings Gazette is reporting the death of a young Montana Marine in Iraq on Sunday, October 8th: 20 year old Lance Corporal Jeremy Scott Sandvick Monroe of Darby, Montana. According to his father, he was shot in the head by a sniper and died instantly. His unit is given as "2/3 Echo Company". We suspect that this is shorthand for "2nd Battalion, 3rd Marine Regiment, 3rd Marine Division" out of Kaneohe Bay, Hawaii. That particular unit is assigned to Regimental Combat Team 7, which would make Monroe's death one of the three described in this CENTCOM release.
	(2) The Kansas City Channel website has posted the identities of two Missouri National Guardsmen killed in an IED attack in Iraq on Saturday, October 7th:
		Sergeant Lawrence Parrish of Lebanon, Missouri
		Specialist John Wood of Humboldt, Kansas
		These are new deaths, not previously reported by CENTCOM.

Wednesday, October 11, 2006 6:34 AM - Newsday is reporting the death of Marine Sergeant Julian Arechaga, 23, of Baldwin, New York, in an IED attack in the Al Anbar Province on Sunday, October 8th. He was on his 2nd deployment to Iraq and had only just arrived in country in September with the 1st Battalion of the 6th Marine Regiment, 2nd Marine Division, out of Camp Lejeune, NC.

Wednesday, October 11, 2006 9:37 AM - The Associated Press is reporting the death of a soldier with the 82nd Combat Aviation Brigade out of Fort Bragg, NC: Timothy Fulkerson, 20, from Owensboro, Kentucky. Although the article states that he died on Saturday, October 7th, we believe that the reporter may have been referring to the date stateside. He may very well have died on Sunday, October 8th, Iraq time (which "fits" better with the fact that his family was informed of his death on Monday). The 82nd Combat Aviation Brigade was deployed to Iraq in August and was stationed north of Baghdad in Salah ad Din Province around the cities of Samarra and Tikrit. That would make Fulkerson a good candidate for the death described in this CENTCOM release.

Wednesday, October 11, 2006 11:26 AM - (1) CENTCOM is reporting the death of a soldier from an IED attack in central Baghdad on Wednesday, October 11th.

Wednesday, October 11, 2006 1:00 PM -
	(1) The DoD has confirmed the deaths of two Army National Guardsmen in Iraq on October 7th:
		Missouri National Guard Sergeant Lawrence L. Parrish, 36, of Lebanon, Missouri
		Kansas National Guard Specialist John E. Wood, 37, of Humboldt, Kansas
		According to the release, they died in Baghdad when their vehicle was hit by a roadside bomb.
	(2) The DoD has also confirmed the death of Army Sergeant Brandon S. Asbury, 21, of Tazewell, Virginia, on October 7th. Asbury died in Baghdad in a small arms fire attack.
	(3) Lastly, the DoD has confirmed the death of Army Specialist Timothy A. Fulkerson, 20, of Utica, Kentucky on October 8th. Fulkerson died when his vehicle hit a land mine in the vicinity of Tikrit.

Wednesday, October 11, 2006 2:43 PM - The DoD has released the identity of a soldier who was killed by enemy action in Baghdad on Monday, October 9th: Private 1st Class Phillip B. Williams, 21, of Gardnerville, Nevada. This would appear to be another "new death", not previously announced by CENTCOM. The DoD gave no further information on his cause of death.

Thursday, October 12, 2006 6:02 AM -
	(1) MNF-Iraq is reporting the death of a 3rd Brigade, 25th Infantry Division, soldier from enemy action in the vicinity of Kirkuk on Wednesday, October 11th.
	(2) The Pittsburgh Tribune-Review is reporting the death of Marine Private 1st Class Shelby Feniello, 25, of Connellsville, Pennsylvania, in Iraq. Feniello died on Monday, October 9th, when his vehicle hit a roadside bomb in the vicinity of Ramadi in the Al Anbar Province. Two other Marines died with him in the incident. He was based out of Camp Lejeune, NC.
		Shelby Feniello, 25, Connellsville, Pennsylvania
	(3) A good, detailed article on Army Private 1st Class Phillip Brandon Williams, 21, has appeared in the Nevada Appeal. Williams died in Baghdad on October 9th on his first tour of duty in Iraq after graduating from military police training. According to his uncle, he was manning a gun atop a Humvee, guarding the personnel in an explosives disposal unit searching for roadside bombs, when he was hit by a sniper. He died instantly.
		Phillip Brandon Williams, 21, Gardnerville, Nevada

Thursday, October 12, 2006 10:34 AM -
	(1) The DoD has confirmed the identities of two of the Marines who died from enemy action in Al Anbar Province on October 6th:
		Corporal Bradford H. Payne, 24, of Montgomery, Alabama
		Lance Corporal John E. Hale, 20, of Shreveport, Louisiana
	(2) CENTCOM had originally reported 3 Marine deaths on October 8th in this release. Now, the DoD has issued this release and this release that indicate that there were actually four deaths that day, from three different units:
		From the 2nd Battalion, 3rd Marines, 3rd Marine Division out of Kaneohe Bay, HI:
			Lance Corporal Jeremy S. Sandvick Monroe, 20, of Chinook, Montana
			Lance Corporal Derek W. Jones, 21, of Salem, Oregon
		From the 3rd Battalion, 12th Marines, 3rd Marine Division out of Okinawa, Japan:
			Captain Robert M. Secher, 33, of Germantown, Tennessee
		From the 2nd Battalion, 8th Marines, 2nd Marine Division out of Camp Lejeune, NC:
			Lance Corporal Stephen F. Johnson, 20, of Marietta, Georgia
		We believe that Monroe, Jones and Secher were likely the Regimental Combat Team 7 Marines covered in the above CENTCOM release.
	(3) The DoD has confirmed the names of the three Marines who died from enemy action in Al Anbar Province on October 9th:
		Sergeant Julian M. Arechaga, 23, of Oceanside, New York
		Lance Corporal Jon E. Bowman, 21, of Dubach, Louisiana
		Private 1st Class Shelby J. Feniello, 25, of Connellsville, Pennsylvania

Friday, October 13, 2006 7:48 AM -
	(1) The Cleveland Plain Dealer is reporting the death of an Ohio Marine from injuries he suffered when an IED detonated. Sergeant Justin Walsh, 24, of Cuyahoga Falls, Ohio, was wounded on October 4th, at which point he was airlifted out of Iraq, eventually arriving at the National Navy Medical Center in Bethesda, Maryland. He died there on October 11th.
Justin Walsh, 24, Cuyahoga Falls, Ohio
	(2) The Richmond Times-Dispatch is reporting the death of Captain Shane Adcock of Mechanicsville, Virginia, in Iraq. He died on October 11th when struck by a roadside bomb in the vicinity of Kirkuk.

Friday, October 13, 2006 8:02 AM - CENTCOM is reporting the death of a Task Force Lightning soldier in northern Iraq from an IED explosion on Thursday, October 12th.

Friday, October 13, 2006 5:44 PM -
	(1) The DoD has confirmed the death of Captain Shane T. Adcock, 27, of Mechanicsville, Virginia, in the vicinity of Hawijah (between Bayji and Kirkuk) from grenade fire on Wednesday, October 11th.
	(2) The DoD has also confirmed the death of Sergeant Justin T. Walsh, 24, of Cuyahoga Falls, Ohio. Walsh was wounded on October 5th, and died on Wednesday, October 11th, at the National Naval Medical Center at Bethesda, Maryland.

Saturday, October 14, 2006 1:13 PM - Reuters AlertNet is reporting the death of a U.S. airman killed in action in the Baghdad area on Saturday, October 14th.

Saturday, October 14, 2006 2:20 PM - MNF-Iraq is reporting the death of a U.S. Marine from enemy action in the Al Anbar Province on Saturday, October 14th.

Saturday, October 14, 2006 8:47 PM -
	(1) The DoD has announced the death of Private 1st Class Thomas J. Hewitt, 22, of Temple, Texas, at the Walter Reed Army Medical Center in Washington, D.C. on Friday, October 13th. Hewitt was injured in Baghdad on September 26th when an IED exploded near his vehicle.
	(2) The DoD has also identified the soldier who died in northern Iraq on Thursday, October 12th, when an IED detonated near his vehicle: Sergeant Gene A. Hawkins, 24, of Orlando, Florida. He was killed in the vicinity of Mosul.

Sunday, October 15, 2006 8:24 AM -
	(1) MNF-Iraq is reporting the death of a soldier in an IED attack southwest of Baghdad on Friday, October 13th.
	(2) MNF-Iraq is also reporting the deaths of three soldiers in an IED attack south of Baghdad on Saturday, October 14th.
	(3) The U.S. Air Force official website has a notice that apparently confirms the death of an airman in the Baghdad area on Saturday, October 14th. He was working with Iraqi police as a turret gunner at the time of his death.

Sunday, October 15, 2006 2:47 PM - MNF-Iraq has announced the deaths of two U.S. Marines from enemy action in the Al Anbar Province on Sunday, October 15th.

Monday, October 16, 2006 2:34 AM - MNF-Iraq is reporting the death of a soldier in an improvised explosive device attack north of Baghdad on Sunday, October 15th.

Monday, October 16, 2006 8:01 AM - MNF-Iraq is reporting the deaths of two Task Force Lightning soldiers in the vicinity of Kirkuk from enemy action on Sunday, October 15th.

Monday, October 16, 2006 10:44 AM -
	(1) The DoD has identified the soldier who died in an IED attack in central Baghdad on Wednesday, October 11th: Sergeant Nicholas R. Sowinski, 25, of Tempe, Arizona. He was a member of the 172nd Stryker Brigade Combat Team that had their tour of duty in Iraq unexpectedly extended by 3 months.
	(2) The DoD has also identified the soldier who died in an IED attack southwest of Baghdad on Friday, October 13th: Private 1st Class Kenny F. Stanton Jr., 20, of Hemet, California.
Kenny F. Stanton Jr., 20, Hemet, California

	Monday, October 16, 2006 10:55 AM - The DoD has released the identity of the airman who died in the vicinity of Baghdad from enemy action on Saturday, October 14th: Airman 1st Class Leebenard E. Chavis, 21, of Hampton, Virginia.
Leebenard E. Chavis, 21, Hampton, Virginia

Monday, October 16, 2006 5:38 PM - Back on October 3rd, CENTCOM issued a notice that a "Marine" from Regimental Combat Team 7 had died of wounds received in Al Anbar Province on September 30th. But after 10 days had elapsed, and no identification was forthcoming from the DoD, we considered the notice to be in error and removed that death from our database. Today, however, the DoD has issued a name ... 17 days after the date of death ... a highly unusual occurrence. And they are announcing the death of an Army soldier from RCT-7, not a Marine. Corporal Luis E. Tejeda, 20, died on September 30th from wounds received when a roadside bomb detonated near his vehicle at Hit in Al Anbar Province. His death had previously been written up in Stars & Stripes, and also on the website Marine.mil. The DoD gives his hometown as Huntington Park, California, while the media articles just cited give it as Lynwood, CA. [This entry goes directly into our archived September 2006 database, and increases the total Coalition deaths in September from 75 to 76 (including 71 U.S. deaths).]

Monday, October 16, 2006 6:38 PM -
	(1) The DoD has announced the death of 2nd Lieutenant Johnny K. Craver, 37, of McKinney, Texas, in Baghdad when a roadside bomb exploded near his patrol vehicle on Friday, October 13th. CENTCOM had only previously reported one death on the 13th ... while the DoD had identified a second. This death makes the third that day.
	(2) The DoD has identified the Marine who died from enemy action in Al Anbar Province on Saturday, October 14th: Sergeant Jonathan J. Simpson, 25, of Rockport, Texas.
	(3) The DoD has also identified the two Marines who died from enemy action in Al Anbar Province on Sunday, October 15th. Both were Marine reservists from a unit based in Terre Haute, Indiana:
		Sergeant Brock A. Babb, 40, of Evansville, Indiana Lance Corporal Joshua M. Hines, 26, of Olney, Illinois
Brock A. Babb, 40, Evansville, Indiana
	(4) MNF-Iraq is reporting the deaths of two more Task Force Lightning soldiers on Sunday, October 15th ... these two attached to the 82nd Airborne Division. They died due to enemy action in Salah ad Din Province up north of Baghdad.

Tuesday, October 17, 2006 4:15 AM - The Rochester, New York, Democrat and Chronicle is reporting the death of an area resident in Iraq on Sunday, October 15th: Army Specialist Jonathan Lootens, 25, of Newark, New York. Because the article states that he was assigned to the 25th Infantry Division out of Hawaii [presumably Kaneohe Bay], he is likely one of the two deaths covered in this CENTCOM release. He died when his vehicle hit a roadside bomb.

Tuesday, October 17, 2006 10:59 AM - The DoD has released the identities of the two 25th Infantry Division deaths on Sunday, October 15th:
	1st Lieutenant Joshua Deese, 25, of North Carolina
	Sergeant Jonathan E. Lootens, 25, of Lyons, New York
Both were involved in an IED attack in the vicinity of the city of Kirkuk. Lootens apparently died at the scene, while Deese made it as far as the medical facilities at Balad before passing away.

Tuesday, October 17, 2006 4:33 PM -
	(1) The DoD has released the identities of the three soldiers who died on Saturday, October 14th, south of Baghdad when their vehicle was struck by an improvised explosive device:
		1st Sergeant Charles M. King, 48, of Mobile, Alabama. 1st Sergeant King was the partner of Pulitzer Prize winning reporter Dana Canedy. The pair have a 7 month old son.
Charles M. King, 48, Mobile, Alabama
		Staff Sergeant Joseph M. Kane, 35, of Darby, Pennsylvania
		Specialist Timothy J. Lauer, 25, of Saegertown, Pennsylvania
	Timothy J. Lauer, 25, Saegertown, Pennsylvania
	(2) The DoD is also announcing the death of a soldier in Baghdad on October 14th of a non-combat related injury: Private 1st Class Keith J. Moore, 28, of San Francisco, California. This is a new death, not previously reported by CENTCOM.

Tuesday, October 17, 2006 6:10 PM - The DoD has released the identity of the soldier who died north of Baghdad from an IED attack on Sunday, October 15th: Captain Mark C. Paine, 32, of Rancho Cucamonga, California.

Wednesday, October 18, 2006 4:27 AM - MNF-Iraq is reporting TEN U.S. deaths for Tuesday, October 17th:
	(1) Four Multi-National Division - Baghdad soldiers died west of Baghdad when their vehicle hit an improvised explosive device.
	(2) One Regimental Combat Team 7 Marine died in combat in the Al Anbar Province.
	(3) One Multi-National Division - Baghdad soldier died when attacked with small arms fire in northern Baghdad.
	(4) Three soldiers assigned to the 3rd Heavy Brigade Combat Team, 4th Infantry Division, died due to enemy action in Diyala Province just north of Baghdad.
	(5) One Multi-National Division - Baghdad soldier died when his vehicle was struck by an improvised explosive device north of Baghdad.

Wednesday, October 18, 2006 5:13 AM - The Montgomery Advertiser is reporting the death of Private Stephen Bicknell, 19, of Prattville, Alabama. According to the article, Bicknell was with the 82nd Airborne Division and was killed on Sunday, October 15th, in Baghdad when his vehicle hit a roadside bomb. However, CENTCOM has reported two 82nd Airborne Division deaths on that date in Salah ad Din Province north of Baghdad. Unless Bicknell is an entirely new death, not previously reported by CENTCOM, it is likely that he  is one of these two Task Force Lightning deaths.

Wednesday, October 18, 2006 1:39 PM - MNF-Iraq has announced the death of a U.S. soldier from small arms fire on Wednesday, October 18th, south of Baghdad.

Thursday, October 19, 2006 6:07 AM -
	(1) MNF-Iraq is reporting the death of a soldier assigned to 1st Brigade, 1st Armored Division, from enemy action in the Al Anbar Province on Wednesday, October 18th.
	(2) The Worcester Telegram & Gazette in Massachusetts has revealed the identity of the U.S. Marine who died in the Al Anbar Province on Tuesday, October 17th: 2nd Lieutenant Joshua L. Booth, 23, of Sturbridge, Massachusetts. According to the article, he died when hit by a sniper's bullet in Haditha. He was a member of the Hawaii-based 2nd Battalion, 3rd Marine Regiment.
Joshua L. Booth, 23, Sturbridge/Fiskdale, Massachusetts

Thursday, October 19, 2006 9:50 AM -
	(1) The DoD has now confirmed the death of Marine 2nd Lieutenant Joshua L. Booth, 23, of Massachusetts.
	(2) The Williamsport, PA, Sun-Gazette is reporting the death of Army 2nd Lieutenant Christopher E. Loudon, 23, of Brockport, Pennsylvania, in Iraq on Tuesday, October 17th. He was apparently one of the four 'west of Baghdad' deaths on that day, killed by a roadside bomb. He was assigned to the 4th Infantry Division out of Fort Hood, Texas.
Christopher Loudon 23, & his wife, Jacey Laidacker, Brockport, Pennsylvania

Thursday, October 19, 2006 11:16 AM -
	(1) The DoD has identified the small arms fire death in northern Baghdad on Tuesday, October 17th: Army Staff Sergeant Garth D. Sizemore, 31, of Mount Sterling, Kentucky.
	(2) The Seattle Post-Intelligencer and the Columbian are both reporting the death of a Vancouver, Washington, man in Iraq on Tuesday, October 17th: 53-year-old Ronald Paulsen. Paulsen had been part of the Inactive Reserves for 13 years, but was called up to serve in Iraq in April of this year. He reportedly was assigned to an Army Reserve civil affairs/psychological operations unit operating out of Fort Bragg, NC. He is said to have died in a roadside bombing, which means he may be the 'north of Baghdad' IED death on the 17th.
Ronald Paulsen, 53, Vancouver, Washington

Thursday, October 19, 2006 11:37 AM - MNF-Iraq is reporting the death of a 16th Military Police Brigade soldier in an IED attack north of Balad on Wednesday, October 18th.

Thursday, October 19, 2006 7:38 PM -
	(1) The DoD has confirmed the identities of the the two 82nd Airborne Division soldiers who died in an IED attack on Sunday, October 15th, near Samarra in Salah ad Din Province:
		Sergeant Lester D. Baroncini Jr., 33, of Bakersfield, California
		Private 1st Class Stephen D. Bicknell, 19, of Prattville, Alabama
	(2) The DoD has announced the death of a special electronic devices repairer assigned to the 5th Special Forces Group: Specialist Daniel W. Winegeart, 23, from Kountze, Texas. The Army Special Operations Command News Service has details of Winegeart's military career as well. It would appear that he died in an accident in Baghdad on Tuesday, October 17th, when his vehicle drove off an overpass, an accident not previously reported by CENTCOM. This would make him the 11th U.S. death in Iraq on the 17th.
Daniel Winegeart, 23, Kountze, Texas
	(3) MNF-Iraq is reporting the death of a U.S. Marine from enemy action in the Al Anbar Province on Thursday, October 19th.
	(4) The DoD has released the identity of the soldier who died in the Al Anbar Province on Wednesday, October 18th: Specialist Jose R. Perez, 21, of Ontario, California. Perez died in Ar Ramadi from enemy small arms fire.
	(5) Pittsburgh Station KDKA is reporting the death of a young soldier in Iraq on Tuesday, October 17th: Specialist Russell Culbertson Jr., 22, of Lone Pine, Pennsylvania. According to the article, he was one of the four deaths that day from a roadside bomb attack 'west of Baghdad' near the Abu Ghurayb prison.
Russell Culbertson, 22 Lone Pine, Pennsylvania

Friday, October 20, 2006 5:35 AM - The DoD has announced the death of Sergeant 1st Class Daniel A. Brozovich, 42, of Greenville, Pennsylvania, in Iraq in an IED explosion on Wednesday, October 18th. Brozovich was a Pennsylvania National Guardsman with the 213th Air Defense Artillery. According to the DoD release, he died in "Ashraf". That is a reference to "Camp Ashraf", which in the early days of the invasion and occupation of Iraq was set up as a prison camp for Mujahedin el-Khalq (MEK) guerrillas who had been conducting terrorist activities in Iran. It is located approximately in between Balad and Ba'qubah north of Baghdad. We believe that this death is the one described as a '16th Military Police Brigade' death in this CENTCOM release. The 16th MP brigade oversees some 6,000 active-duty, reserve and National Guard troops whose primary duty is coalition detention operations.

	Friday, October 20, 2006 8:28 AM - The Kansas City Channel is reporting the death of Army Corporal David Unger, 21, from Leavenworth, Kansas. He was one of four 4th Infantry Division soldiers who died west of Baghdad near the Abu Ghurayb Prison from an IED attack on Tuesday, October 17th.
David Unger, 21, Leavenworth, Kansas, his wife, Laura Unger, and one of their two children.

Friday, October 20, 2006 1:14 PM -
	The DoD has now confirmed the identities of the four soldiers who died in an IED attack west of Baghdad on Tuesday, October 17th:
David Unger Family, Leavenworth, Kansas		2nd Lieutenant Christopher E. Loudon, 23, of Brockport, Pennsylvania Corporal David M. Unger, 21, of Leavenworth, Kansas Corporal Russell G. Culbertson III, 22, of Amity, Pennsylvania Specialist Joseph C. Dumas Jr., 25, of New Orleans, Louisiana At the time it was posted, the DoD release had their date of death listed as October 18th. However, every media report we have read, plus the CENTCOM release, puts the date of death on the 17th.

Friday, October 20, 2006 1:35 PM -
	The DoD has released the identities of the three soldiers who died in Diyala Province on Tuesday, October 17th:
		Staff Sergeant Ryan E. Haupt, 24, of Phoenix, Arizona
		Sergeant Norman R. Taylor III, 21, of Blythe, California
		Private 1st Class Nathan J. Frigo, 23, of Kokomo, Indiana
	They died when a roadside bomb detonated near their vehicle in the vicinity of Ba'qubah, about 35 miles north of Baghdad.

Friday, October 20, 2006 5:00 PM - MNF-Iraq is reporting the death of a soldier from a roadside bomb in southwest Baghdad on Friday, October 20th.

Saturday, October 21, 2006 8:26 AM - The El Salvadoran news outlet El Mundo is reporting the death of a Salvadoran soldier in Iraq on Friday, October 20th: Capitán José Argelio Soto Ochoa, 39. Roughly translated and summarized, the article states that Soto Ochoa died and four other Salvadoran soldiers were wounded by a roadside bomb. The attack occurred at about 5:30 in the afternoon in Iraq when a patrol of the 7th Contingent of the Cuscatlán Battalion was escorting a convoy of food from Camp Echo in Diwaniyah, Qadisiyah Province, to Camp Delta in Al Kut, Wasit Province. The 6th Contingent, stationed in Kut, had suffered two deaths just last July, both of them from roadside bombs. With this latest death, the Salvadorans have experienced 5 dead and 30 wounded since August of 2003 when they first joined the U.S. led coalition in Iraq.

José Argelio Soto Ochoa, 39, San Miguel Province, El Salvador

	Saturday, October 21, 2006 11:26 AM - The Illinois Courier News is reporting the death of a Marine sniper in Iraq: Eduardo Lopez, 21, of Aurora, Illinois. The article did not give an exact date of death ... just that he died this past week. He could be the Marine death reported on Thursday, October 19th, in this CENTCOM release.
Eduardo Lopez, 21, Aurora, Illinois

Saturday, October 21, 2006 1:39 PM - MNF-Iraq is reporting the deaths of three U.S. Marines from enemy action in the Al Anbar Province on Saturday, October 21st.

Sunday, October 22, 2006 10:48 AM -
	(1) MNF-Iraq is reporting the death of a Regimental Combat Team 5 Marine from enemy action in the Al Anbar Province on Saturday, October 21st.
	(2) MNF-Iraq is also reporting the death of a Task Force Lightning soldier assigned to the 82nd Airborne Division. That soldier died on Saturday, October 21st, from enemy action in Salah ad Din Province north of Baghdad.

Sunday, October 22, 2006 12:08 PM - MNF-Iraq has announced the death of a U.S. soldier in western Baghdad from a roadside bomb on Sunday, October 22nd.

	Sunday, October 22, 2006 1:34 PM - The DoD has released the identity of the soldier who died in an improvised explosive device attack in southwestern Baghdad on Friday, October 20th: Staff Sergeant Kevin M. Witte, 27, of Beardsley, Minnesota.
Kevin M. Witte, 27, Beardsley, Minnesota

Sunday, October 22, 2006 3:58 PM -
	(1) MNF-Iraq is reporting the death of a soldier from a roadside bomb attack in eastern Baghdad on Sunday, October 22nd.
	(2) MNF-Iraq is also reporting the death of two soldiers west of Baghdad in an enemy small arms fire attack on Sunday, October 22nd.

Sunday, October 22, 2006 5:48 PM - (CORRECTION) On October 9th, CENTCOM issued a press release stating that three Marines had died from enemy action in Al Anbar Province on Friday, October 6th. However, as of today, October 22nd, only two Marines have been identified by the DoD as dying on the 6th: Lance Corporal John E. Hale and Corporal Bradford H. Payne. The slot in our database for the third death remains blank. But, a close look at that DoD identification release does show three Marines grouped together and from the same unit (2nd Battalion, 8th Marines): Hale, Payne, and Lance Corporal Stephen F. Johnson who is listed as dying on the 8th. After considerably more research on Johnson, it does appear that the 8th is his correct date of death (see his obituary here). The DoD has now updated it's own spreadsheet of Iraq Deaths By Date (found here in .pdf format) through October 14th. That document indicates that Hale and Payne died on the same day as the incident that killed them, October 6th ... but although Johnson was wounded on October 6th, he lingered until the 8th before succumbing. We now believe that CENTCOM reported 3 deaths on the 6th in error. That notice should probably have said two deaths on the 6th, one on the 8th. Regardless, we are now eliminating the un-named death from October 6th and adjusting the death numbers down one.

Monday, October 23, 2006 4:52 AM -
	(1) CENTCOM is reporting the death of a soldier from small arms fire southwest of Baghdad on Sunday, October 22nd.
	(2) MNF-Iraq is reporting the death of an International Police Liaison Officer in east Baghdad when his vehicle hit a roadside bomb in eastern Baghdad. In addition, four soldiers were wounded.

Monday, October 23, 2006 6:50 AM -
	(1) (CORRECTION) On October 10th, CENTCOM issued a press release stating that a U.S. soldier had been killed "today" in a small arms fire attack in eastern Baghdad. But as of this date, the DoD has not released the identity for any death on the 10th. However, the DoD did issue a statement for the death of Private 1st Class Phillip B. Williams on October 9th. It did not give a specific cause of death ... only that he died from "enemy contact". But an article that appeared in the Nevada Appeal on October 12th was quite clear about it being a small arms fire death. Williams was manning a gun atop an armored vehicle when a sniper's bullet hit him. Also, his unit, the 4th Brigade Troop Battalion of the 101st Airborne, had suffered an earlier death on July 22nd ... Corporal Adam J. Fargo ... in eastern Baghdad. It is possible that the original CENTCOM release for Williams' death was actually written when "today" was October 9th ... but not published until the 10th. The fact that CENTCOM did not publish any report of a small arms fire death in Baghdad on October 9th also tends to indicate that the original CENTCOM release was indeed meant to cover Pfc. Williams. For that reason, the un-named death listed in our database on October 10th is being eliminated as a duplicate of Williams' death on the 9th. This will reduce our death totals by one.
	(2) The Elmira/Corning, New York, Star-Gazette is reporting the death of Tony Knier, 30, of Westfield, New York. (Later update: Knier was from Sabinsville/Westfield, Pennsylvania.) He was killed by a roadside bomb on Saturday, October 21st. Although the article does not state his place of death in Iraq, it does mention that he was stationed at Fort Bragg, NC. This would make him a good match for the 82nd Airborne Division roadside bomb death in Salah ad Din Province on the 21st.

Monday, October 23, 2006 8:10 AM - CENTCOM is reporting the death of a Regimental Combat Team 5 Marine in the Al Anbar Province from enemy action on Saturday, October 21st. They specifically state that this death is in addition to the RCT-5 Marine death described in this press release.

	Monday, October 23, 2006 9:06 AM - The DoD has released the identity of the soldier who died on Thursday, October 18th, in a small arms fire attack south of Baghdad: Staff Sergeant Jesus M. Montalvo, 46, of Rio Piedras, Puerto Rico.
Jesus Montalvo, 46, Rio Piedras, Puerto Rico

Monday, October 23, 2006 4:33 PM -
	(1) The DoD has identified the three 'Multi-National Force - West' Marines who died in Al Anbar Province from enemy action on Saturday, October 21st:
		Lance Corporal Clifford R. Collinsworth, 20, of Chelsea, Michigan
		Lance Corporal Nathan R. Elrod, 20, of Salisbury, North Carolina
Nathan R. Elrod, 20, Salisbury, North Carolina
		Lance Corporal Nicholas J. Manoukian, 22, of Lathrup Village, Michigan
Nicholas J. Manoukian, 22, Lathrup Village, Michigan
	They were all assigned to the 1st Battalion, 6th Marines, which operates out of Camp Hurricane Point in Ramadi. That unit is currently assigned to 1st Brigade Combat Team, 1st Armored Division.
	(2) The DoD has also identified one of the two 'Regimental Combat Team 5' Marines who died in enemy action in Al Anbar Province on Saturday, October 21st: Corporal Joshua C. Watkins, 25, of Jacksonville, Florida. Jacksonville's First Coast News has some biographical details in an article published today. He was one week away from completing his current Iraq deployment.
Funeral of Joshua C. Watkins, 25, Jacksonville, Florida
	(3) MNF-Iraq is now announcing that a 'Multi-National Division - Baghdad' soldier has been listed as Duty Status Whereabouts Unknown (DUSTWUN) as of Tuesday, October 24th.

Tuesday, October 24, 2006 3:41 AM - MNF-Iraq is reporting the deaths of two U.S. Marines from enemy action in the Al Anbar Province on Monday, October 23rd.

Tuesday, October 24, 2006 5:14 AM - More details are emerging on the death of 31-year-old Tony Knier on Saturday, October 21st. The Elmira/Corning, New York, Star-Gazette is reporting that he did indeed die in Salah ad Din Province. His family has confirmed that he was within a 2 minutes drive of his base north of Tikrit when his Humvee hit a roadside bomb. In fact, two soldiers in the vehicle with him were seriously burned, but are still alive at this time. Knier was a Sergeant 1st Class ... and an Army Ranger ... who served as a drill instructor at Fort Benning, Georgia, before deploying to Iraq.

Tony Knier & Family, Sabinsville/Westfield, Pennsylvania

Tuesday, October 24, 2006 8:00 AM - The South Florida Sun-Sentinel has published an article this morning on the death of Deltona native Private 1st Class Nicholas Rogers, 27, in Iraq. According to a family spokesman, Rogers, an army medic, was shot and killed in Baghdad while out on patrol on Sunday, October 22nd. No mention was made of any other deaths from that incident, so we are assuming he is the small arms fire death southwest of Baghdad on that day. Rogers was with the 10th Mountain Division based out of Fort Drum, New York. He has a three-year-old daughter ... and his wife is expecting their second child.

Nicholas Rogers and daughter Jocelyn, Deltona, Florida

Tuesday, October 24, 2006 10:30 AM -
	(1) MNF-Iraq is reporting the death of a U.S. sailor from enemy action in the Al Anbar Province on Monday, October 23rd.
	(2) MNF-Iraq is also reporting the death of a soldier in central Baghdad from a roadside bomb blast early in the morning on Tuesday, October 24th.
	(3) MNF-Iraq has issued an update this morning on the soldier who was declared Duty Status Whereabouts Unknown (DUSTWUN) in a brief release yesterday evening. It would appear that the soldier was an army translator of Iraqi descent who had left his base in the Green Zone to visit relatives in Baghdad. While at the relatives' residence, three masked men entered, handcuffed the soldier and forced him into a vehicle which then drove off. The kidnappers have since contacted the relatives using the soldier's cell phone. An intensive manhunt is underway in Baghdad at this time in an attempt to locate the man.

Tuesday, October 24, 2006 1:06 PM -
	(1) The Dod has confirmed the death of Marine Private Edwardo J. Lopez, 21, of Aurora, Illinois. He died on Thursday, October 19th, from enemy action in Al Anbar Province.
	(2) The Dod has also identified the second Regimental Combat Team 5 Marine who was killed by enemy action in Al Anbar Province on Saturday, October 21st: Lance Corporal Eric W. Herzberg, 20, of Severna Park, Maryland.

Tuesday, October 24, 2006 6:14 PM - The DoD has now confirmed the death of Staff Sergeant Ronald L. Paulsen, 53, of Vancouver, Washington. Paulsen died on Tuesday, October 17th, when his vehicle was struck by a roadside bomb about 30 km north of Baghdad near the town of Tarmiyah on the banks of the Tigris River.

Wednesday, October 25, 2006 11:05 AM - The Missouri Standard Democrat is reporting the death of Army 1st Lieutenant Camden Bock, 24, of New Madrid, Missouri. According to the article, he died in a roadside bomb attack on Sunday, October 22nd, in Baghdad ... also that he was assigned to the 101st Airborne Division out of Fort Campbell, KY. The 4th Brigade of the 101st Airborne spent the last year assigned to Multi-National Division - Baghdad, working out of FOB Loyalty in the eastern part of the capitol. As late as a week ago, their troops were still conducting operations in the area. For that reason, we believe that the lieutenant is likely one of the "eastern Baghdad" IED deaths on Sunday.

Wednesday, October 25, 2006 12:51 PM -
	(1) The DoD has released the identity of the soldier who died in western Baghdad in an IED attack on Sunday, October 22nd: Major David G. Taylor, 37, of North Carolina. This same unit, the 1st Battalion of the 26th Infantry Regiment, lost another soldier, Staff Sergeant Kevin Witte, just last Friday, the 20th, from an IED attack in southwest Baghdad.
David Taylor, 37,Apex, North Carolina, & wife, Michelle
	(2) The DoD has also released the identity of one of the two soldiers who died in separate roadside bomb attacks in east Baghdad on Sunday, October 22nd: Sergeant Willsun M. Mock, 23, of Harper, Kansas. His unit, the 1st Battalion of the 26th Infantry Regiment, arrived in Baghdad last August and has been operating out of two bases in east Baghdad.
	(3) The DoD is confirming the death of Specialist Nicholas K. Rogers, 27, of Deltona, Florida, on Sunday, October 22nd. He died in Baghdad when his patrol made enemy contact.

Wednesday, October 25, 2006 1:44 PM - The DoD has identified the sailor who was killed in Al Anbar Province from enemy action on Monday, October 23rd: Seaman (Hospital Corpsman) Charles O. Sare, 23, of Hemet, California. This is the second death in under two weeks from the Los Angeles area town of Hemet (population around 59,000) ... Army Private 1st Class Kenny Stanton Jr. died on October 13th in Baghdad.

Charles O. Sare, 23, Hemet, California

Wednesday, October 25, 2006 3:06 PM -
	The DoD has identified the two Marines who died in combat on Monday, October 23rd:
		Lance Corporal Richard A. Buerstetta, 20, of Franklin, Tennessee
		Lance Corporal Tyler R. Overstreet, 22, of Gallatin, Tennessee
	Both were Marine reservists based out of Nashville. According to an article published this morning in the Middle Tennessee News Examiner, Overstreet was killed when his vehicle was hit by an improvised explosive device in Fallujah. We assume that Buerstetta died in the same incident.

Wednesday, October 25, 2006 3:52 PM -
	(1) The DoD has announced the death of Specialist Carl A. Eason, 29, of Lovelady, Texas, on Monday, October 23rd, when an improvised explosive device detonated in Baghdad. CENTCOM has not issued a notice of a similar death on this date. However, they have issued one for the 24th. The descriptions of the two deaths are so similar, that, in the interest of not unnecessarily inflating the death count, we are going to consider them the same death for now in our database. This may change as additional information comes to light.
	(2) The DoD has identified the two soldiers who were killed by enemy small arms fire west of Baghdad on Sunday, October 22nd:
		Specialist Nathaniel A. Aguirre, 21, of Carrollton, Texas
	Nathaniel A. Aguirre, 21, Carrollton, Texas
		Specialist Matthew W. Creed, 23, of Covina, California
	Matthew W. Creed, 23, Covina, California

Thursday, October 26, 2006 2:57 AM - The 'Multi-National Force - Iraq' group in Baghdad is reporting five U.S. deaths due to enemy action in the Al Anbar Province on Wednesday, October 25th: one Sailor assigned to 3rd Naval Construction Regiment, two Marines assigned to Regimental Combat Team 5 and two Marines assigned to Regimental Combat Team 7.

Thursday, October 26, 2006 10:54 AM -
	(1) The DoD has confirmed the death of 1st Lieutenant Amos Camden R. Bock, 24, of New Madrid, Missouri ... only not on the day the news media originally reported. His death date as given by the DoD is Monday, October 23rd. A re-reading of an Associated Press article shows that the family was informed of his death on Monday. Therefore, the reference to Sunday as his death date could have been Stateside time, not Iraq time. Regardless, we are moving his death to the 23rd, and re-opening the death described in this CENTCOM release for the 22nd (which will increase the number of dead by one). Lieutenant Bock's unit, 4-320th Field Artillery of the 101st Airborne Division, patrolled a wide area in Baghdad, judging from recent CENTCOM articles, from southern Baghdad to the Karada District to Adhamiyah. He died somewhere in the city when a roadside bomb detonated. No CENTCOM release was apparently issued for his death.
Amos Camden Bock, 24 New Madrid, Missouri
	(2) CORRECTION. The relocation of 1st Lieutenant Bock has forced us to rethink another death ... that of Specialist Carl A. Eason on the 23rd. If Lieutenant Bock died without a CENTCOM release, it is entirely possible that Specialist Eason did as well. Yesterday we assumed that CENTCOM had erred on the date on this press release ... and that it was likely meant to cover Specialist Eason's death despite the fact that it was written for a death on the 24th. Today we will restore that death on the 24th (which will also increase the number of dead by one) until such time that we are reasonably certain that they are indeed one and the same.

Thursday, October 26, 2006 2:40 PM -
	(1) The DoD has identified the sailor who died in enemy action in Al Anbar Province on Wednesday, October 25th: Petty Officer 2nd Class Charles V. Komppa, 35, of Belgrade, Montana. He was a member of the Billings, Montana, Detachment 0618 of Naval Mobile Construction Battalion 18.
Charles "Chuck" Komppa, 35, Belgrade, Montana
	(2) The DoD has also identified one of the Regimental Combat Team 7 Marines who died in enemy action in Al Anbar Province on Wednesday, October 25th: Private 1st Class Daniel B. Chaires, 20, of Tallahassee, Florida.
	(3) Finally, the DoD has identified one of the Regimental Combat Team 5 Marines who died in enemy action in Al Anbar Province on Wednesday, October 25th: Lance Corporal Jonathan B. Thornsberry, 22, of McDowell, Kentucky. Thornsberry was a reservist from 3rd Battalion, 24th Marines, out of Johnson City, Tennessee.
Jonathan B. Thornsberry, 22, McDowell, Kentucky

Thursday, October 26, 2006 6:54 PM -
	(1) The DoD has identified the second Regimental Combat Team 7 Marine who died in enemy action in Al Anbar Province on Wednesday, October 25th: Private 1st Class Donald S. Brown, 19, of Succasunna, New Jersey.
	(2) The DoD has also identified the second Regimental Combat Team 5 Marine who died in enemy action in Al Anbar Province on Wednesday, October 25th: Sergeant Thomas M. Gilbert, 24, of Downers Grove, Illinois. Gilbert was a reservist with 1st Battalion, 24th Marines, out of Grand Rapids, Michigan.
Thomas M. Gilbert, 24 Downers Grove, Illinois

Friday, October 27, 2006 11:04 AM - The British Ministry of Defense is reporting the death of a British soldier from the 58th (Eyre's) Battery, 12 Regiment Royal Artillery in a non-hostile vehicle accident just outside of Shaibah Logistics Base near Basrah on Friday, October 27th.

Friday, October 27, 2006 12:27 PM - MNF-Iraq is reporting the death of a Task Force Lightning soldier from enemy action in Diyala Province just north of Baghdad. The hostile incident happened on Thursday, October 26th. The soldier died some time later at a military medical facility.

Friday, October 27, 2006 3:26 PM - The DoD has confirmed the death of 31-year-old Sergeant 1st Class Tony L. Knier in an IED attack on Saturday, October 21st. An updated article in the Elmira/Corning, New York, Star-Gazette contains further details on his death in the vicinity of Bayji north of Tikrit. Tony Knier is NOT from Westfield, New York, as originally entered in our database ... he attended high school in Westfield, Pennsylvania, which is across the border from Elmira, New York. The DoD lists his hometown as Sabinsville, Pennsylvania, a town a short distance from Westfield.

Tony Knier, 31, Sabinsville, Pennsylvania

Saturday, October 28, 2006 2:46 AM - MNF-Iraq is reporting the death of a Marine from enemy action in the Al Anbar Province on Friday, October 27th.

	Saturday, October 28, 2006 12:46 PM - The British Ministry of Defense has identified the soldier who was killed in a vehicle crash near Shaibah Logistics Base near Basrah on Friday, October 27th: Lieutenant Tom Tanswell, 27, of London, England.
Tom Tanswell, 27, London, England

Saturday, October 28, 2006 5:29 PM -
	(1) The DoD has announced a new death from ten days ago on Wednesday, October 18th. Staff Sergeant Patrick O. Barlow, 42, of Greensboro, North Carolina, apparently died in San Antonio, Texas (the Brooke Army Medical Center is located there), of a "non-combat-related medical condition". No further information was released, nor did a google search turn up any further details whatsoever.
	(2) The DoD has identified the soldier who died on Thursday, October 26th, in a province north of Baghdad. 1st Sergeant Ricky L. McGinnis, 42, of Hamilton, Ohio, was wounded in an IED attack in Muqdadiyah, Diyala Province ... but died at a military medical facility in Balad, Salah ad Din Province, some time later that day.
Ricky L. McGinnis, 42, Hamilton, Ohio

	Sunday, October 29, 2006 5:51 AM - The Green Bay Press Gazette is reporting the death of a local Marine in Iraq: Luke Zimmerman, 24, of Green Bay (Luxemburg), Wisconsin. The article states that the family learned of the death of Friday, October 27th, so he could very well be the death described in this CENTCOM release.
Luke Zimmerman, 24, Green Bay, Wisconsin

Monday, October 30, 2006 1:26 AM - MNF-Iraq is reporting the death of a Marine from enemy action in Al Anbar Province on Sunday, October 29th.

Monday, October 30, 2006 10:57 AM - MNF-Iraq is reporting the death of an 89th Military Police Brigade servicemember in a small arms fire attack in east Baghdad on Monday, October 30th.

	Monday, October 30, 2006 12:56 PM - The DoD has confirmed the death of Sergeant Luke J. Zimmerman, 24, due to enemy action in the Al Anbar Province on Friday, October 27th. According to the DoD, he was from Luxemburg, a town not far from Green Bay, Wisconsin.
Luke Zimmerman, 24, Luxemburg, Wisconsin

Tuesday, October 31, 2006 5:54 AM -
	(1) MNF-Iraq is reporting the death of a soldier in a small arms fire attack in western Baghdad on Monday, October 30th.
	(2) MNF-Iraq is also reporting the death of a soldier in an IED attack south of Baghdad on Monday, October 30th.

	Tuesday, October 31, 2006 3:39 PM - The DoD has identified the Marine who died from an enemy attack in the Al Anbar Province on Sunday, October 29th: Lance Corporal Troy D. Nealey, 24, of Eaton Rapids, Michigan. Nealey was a reservist based out of Lansing, Michigan.
Troy Nealey, 24, Eaton Rapids, Michigan

Wednesday, November 01, 2006 3:53 AM - MNF-Iraq is reporting the death of a soldier assigned to Regimental CombatTeam 7 on Tuesday, October 31st. The death occurred in Al Anbar Province and was due to enemy action.

Wednesday, November 01, 2006 5:11 AM -
	(1) The DoD has announced the death of a U.S. Marine from a non-hostile unspecified cause in Al Anbar Province on Tuesday, October 31st: Private 1st Class Jason Franco, 18, of Corona, California. This is a new death, not previously reported by CENTCOM.
Jason Franco's brother Kristian Franco, left, mother Guadalupe Franco and father Genaro Franco
	(2) The Chronicle Herald of Halifax, Nova Scotia, is reporting the death of a Canadian who was serving in the U.S. Army with the 4th Infantry Division out of Fort Hood, TX: Corporal Michael Seeley, 27, of Fredericton, New Brunswick. According to the article, Seeley died on Monday, October 30th, south of Baghdad. His unit was given as the "28th Infantry". However, there is no unit with this number at Fort Hood. We believe this is actually the 2nd Battalion of the 8th Infantry Regiment ... which is indeed operating south of Baghdad and which lost a man previously on September 15th.

Wednesday, November 01, 2006 8:07 AM - The Chicago Tribune is reporting the death of a 26-year-old soldier from Skokie, Illinois, in Iraq: Sergeant Kraig Foyteck. Although the article gives details on his life gleaned from an interview with his mother, it would appear to be incorrect in one respect: it says that Foyteck died in Mosul. However, Foyteck's unit, the 2nd Battalion of the 1st Infantry Regiment, was one of the 172nd Brigade Combat Team units that had their tour of duty extended at the last minute and were then transferred from Mosul to Baghdad. More research turned up this article from ABC News in Chicago which states that he was killed Monday, October 30th, "while doing house to house searches for insurgents outside Baghdad".

Kraig Foyteck, 26, Skokie, Illinois

Wednesday, November 1, 2006 9:30 AM - An article in the Greensboro News-Record contains further details on the death of Staff Sergeant Patrick O. Barlow, 42, of Greensboro, North Carolina. Patrick "died Oct. 18 in a San Antonio, Texas, hospice after a long illness. Army officials would not say what the illness was. It was diagnosed shortly after Barlow’s unit, the 50th Engineer Company based in Fort Leonard Wood, Mo., was deployed to Iraq. Barlow returned to the United States after only a few weeks in Iraq and his illness was unrelated to his deployment, an Army spokesman said."

Wednesday, November 1, 2006 10:09 AM - An obituary in the Billings Gazette gives further details about Petty Officer 2nd Class Charles V. Komppa, who died on October 25. Although previously from Belgrade, Montana, his most recent residence was with his family in Absarokee, Montana. Komppa was born in Conroe, Texas, married Delisa Virginia Dewey in Hunt, Texas, and lived at one time in Bremerton, Washington, and Sebeka, Minnesota. Chuck is survived by his wife, Delisa and their two children, Alicia and Gary, and many other relatives.

Wednesday, November 01, 2006 5:23 PM -
	(1) The DoD has confirmed the death of Sergeant Michael T. Seeley, 27, of Fredericton, New Brunswick, Canada, in a roadside bomb attack in the Baghdad area on Monday, October 30th. Although a Canadian, Seeley served with the 4th Infantry Division of the U.S. Army out of Fort Hood, Texas.
	(2) The DoD has identified the 89th Military Police Brigade soldier who died in eastern Baghdad in a small arms fire attack on his checkpoint on Monday, October 30th: Sergeant Kenneth E. Bostic, 21, of Hawthorne, Nevada.

Thursday, November 02, 2006 3:11 AM - The DoD has confirmed the death of Sergeant Kraig D. Foyteck, 26, of Skokie, Illinois. He died in Baghdad in a small arms fire attack on Monday, October 30th.

Thursday, November 02, 2006 6:51 PM - The DoD has released the identity of the soldier who died in Al Anbar Province on Tuesday, October 31st: Sergeant Michael R. Weidemann, 23, of Newport, Rhode Island. Weidemann died in the vicinity of the town of Hit when a roadside bomb detonated near his vehicle.

Saturday, November 04, 2006 5:22 AM - CORRECTIONS
	(1) On October 23rd, CENTCOM put out a press notice regarding the death of "an International Police Liaison Officer" in an IED blast in Baghdad on the 22nd. However, after over 10 days, the DoD has yet to formally issue an identity for this death. Further research now shows that the IPLO who died that day was not a member of the U.S. military, but was instead an employee of DynCorp who was working alongside the U.S. Army as part of its Civilian Police Advisory Training Team. DynCorp itself has published his name: Brian M. Brian, 58, a former police officer from Camden, Arkansas, who had been in Iraq since June. Perhaps he was included in the above CENTCOM press release because several U.S. soldiers were wounded in the attack with him. Regardless, this death is not that of a coalition military personnel, and as such, it is being removed from our database. This will reduce the total death count by one.
	(2) On October 24th, CENTCOM issued a press release for the death of a Multi-National Division - Baghdad soldier who "died at approximately 2:15 a.m. today" from an IED attack in central Baghdad. However, that supposed death happened over 10 days ago, and the DoD has yet to issue names for any deaths on that day. It must be noted though that two soldiers died the day before on October 23rd in separate IED attacks in Baghdad, neither of whom were reported by CENTCOM: 1st Lieutenant Amos C.R. Bock and Specialist Carl A. Eason. This could easily be the case of a CENTCOM release having been written when "today" was October 23rd, but not published until a day later. As such, we are eliminating the October 24th unnamed death from our database, which will reduce our death count by one. It is unclear which soldier the CENTCOM release could have applied to. Bock's unit tended to cover the south Baghdad area, while Eason's unit was stationed in north Baghdad at FOB Justice. Which one died in central Baghdad that day is simply not known at this point.

Saturday, December 02, 2006 10:05 AM - The DoD keeps its own spreadsheet of U.S. military deaths, among personnel associated with Operation Iraqi Freedom, in .pdf format here. However, they only update this record monthly. An analysis of the latest update on November 28th shows the addition of a serviceperson not previously announced in a DoD press release:
	Master at Arms Petty Officer 3rd Class Roger Allen Napper Jr., 30, died in Manama, Bahrain, on October 7, 2006. According to an article in the Pittsburgh Tribune-Review, he died in a vehicle accident when his vehicle struck a power pole. He grew up in Greensburg, Pennsylvania, but had been living in Clio, Michigan. He was buried in Michigan. This previously unreported death goes directly into this archived October 2006 database, and increases the total Coalition deaths in October from 109 to 110 (including 106 U.S. deaths).
Roger Allen Napper Jr., 30, Greensburg, Pennsylvania

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