Honoring Lives Lost to Conflict

In AL KUT, IRAQ on November 2, 2009, the ARMY lost SPC Sylvestre, Jonathon Matthew of COLORADO SPRINGS, CO, 21, serving with BATTERY B, 1ST BATTALION, 10TH FIELD ARTILLERY, FORT BENNING, GEORGIA.

Sgt. Cesar Bocanegra Ruiz, 26, of San Antonio, Texas, was a U.S. Marine Corps Reserve serviceman assigned to the Deployed Processing Command, Marine Corps Base Camp Pendleton. He was killed in action in Afghanistan on October 31, 2009.

SGT Cooper, Christopher Michael, 28, a native of OCEANSIDE, CA, died serving in the Active Duty, ARMY, COMPANY B, 2ND BATTALION, 28TH INFANTRY REGIMENT, 172ND INFANTRY BRIGADE, SCHWEINFURT, GERMANY, during Operation Iraqi Freedom on October 30, 2009.

SPC Hopper, Lukas Caleb, 20, a native of MERCED, CA, died serving in the Active Duty, ARMY, D CO, 1-505 IN, 3BCT, 82ND DIV (TASK ORG TOMND-B), during Operation Iraqi Freedom on October 30, 2009.

At 19, SPC Avila, Adrian Ladon of OPELIKA, AL was serving with the ARMY, 1343D CHEMICAL COMPANY, 151ST CHEMICAL BATTALION, CENTRE, AL, when he died in CAMP BUEHRING, KUWAIT on October 29, 2009.

From ROSANKY, TX, LCPL Stanley, Cody Robert served with the MARINE CORPS, WPNS CO, 3D BN, 4TH MAR, (RCT-7, 2D MEB-A), 1ST MAR DIV, TWENTYNINE PALMS, CA, and died on October 28, 2009 in NOW ZAD, AFGHANISTAN. He was 21. Cause: HOSTILE.

At 39, SPC Gallegos, Joseph Lawrence of QUESTA, NM was serving with the ARMY, 720TH TRANSPORTATION COMPANY, 13TH EXPEDITIONARY SUPPORT COMMAND, LAS VEGAS, NM, when he died in TALLIL, IRAQ on October 28, 2009.

U.S. Army Private First Class Brian Russell Bates Jr., 20, of Gretna, Louisiana, died on October 27, 2009, in a hostile incident one kilometer north of Loy Kariz, Afghanistan.

U.S. Army Specialist Robert Keith Charlton, 22, of Malden, Missouri, died on October 27, 2009, at Landstuhl Regional Medical Center in Germany from wounds sustained in Afghanistan.

Sgt. Fernando De La Rosa, 24, of Alamo, Texas, was a U.S. Army infantryman. He was killed in a hostile incident in Afghanistan's Arghandab River Valley on October 27, 2009.

U.S. Army Sergeant First Class Luis Manuel Gonzalez, 27, of South Ozone Park, New York, died on October 27, 2009, in Afghanistan's Arghandab Valley.

U.S. Army Sergeant Dale Russel Griffin, 29, of Terre Haute, Indiana, was killed by an improvised explosive device in Afghanistan's Arghandab River Valley on October 27, 2009.

U.S. Army Sergeant Issac Brandon Jackson, 27, of Plattsburg, Missouri, died on October 27, 2009, in the Arghandab Valley, Afghanistan, while serving with Company C, 1st Battalion, 17th Infantry Regiment.

COMPANY C, 1ST BATTALION, 17TH INFANTRY, 5TH STRYKER BRIGADE COMBAT TEAM, FORT LEWIS, WA, ARMY ? SPC Stanker, Jared Donald (EVERGREEN PARK, IL), age 22, ? died in ARGANDAB RIVER VALLEY, AFGHANISTAN on October 27, 2009. Cause: HOSTILE.

From VANCOUVER, WA, PFC Walz, Christopher Ian served with the ARMY, C/1-17 IN BN, 5/2ID SBCT (TF STRYKER), and died on October 27, 2009 in ARGHANDAB RIVER VALLEY, AFGHANISTAN. He was 25. Cause: HOSTILE.

COMPANY C, 1ST BATTALION, 17TH INFANTRY, 5 SBCT, FORT LEWIS, WA, ARMY ? SGT Williamson, Patrick Oliver (BROUSSARD, LA), age 24, ? died in ARGHANAB VALLEY, AFGHANISTAN on October 27, 2009. Cause: HOSTILE.

HEADQUARTERS AND HEADQUARTERS DETACHMENT, 22ND MILITARY POLICE BATTALION, FORT LEWIS, WASHINGTON, ARMY ? MAJ Audo, David Lawrence (SAINT JOSEPH, IL), age 35, ? died in BAGHDAD, IRAQ on October 27, 2009.

Staff Sgt. Keith Robert Bishop, 28, of Medford, New York, was a U.S. Army Special Forces soldier. He died in Darreh-ye Bum, Afghanistan, on October 26, 2009, from hostile fire.