Honoring Lives Lost to Conflict

Corporal Jon-luke Bateman, a 22-year-old U.S. Marine from Tulsa, Oklahoma, was killed in action in Helmand province, Afghanistan, on January 15, 2012.

Lance Cpl. Kenneth Eldren Cochran, 20, of Wilder, Idaho, was a U.S. Marine killed in action on January 15, 2012, in Helmand province, Afghanistan.

SFC Wise, Benjamin Brian, age 34, of LITTLE ROCK, AR ? Active Duty, ARMY, COMPANY A, 3RD BATTALION, 1ST SPECIAL FORCES GROUP (AIRBORNE), USASOC, JOINT BASE LEWIS-MCCHORD, WA, ? died on January 15, 2012 in LANDSTUHL, GERMANY. Cause: HOSTILE.

At 21, PFC Turner, Neil Isaac of TACOMA, WA was serving with the ARMY, COMPANY B, 1ST BATTALION, 41ST INFANTRY REGIMENT, 3RD INFANTRY BRIGADE COMBAT TEAM, FORT BLISS, TX, when he died in COP KHERWAR, AFGHANISTAN on January 11, 2012.

Gilles Jacquier was a French journalist for France Télévisions. He was killed on January 11, 2012, while on assignment in Homs, Syria.

U.S. Army Specialist Michael Wayne Pyron, 30, of Hopewell, Virginia, was killed in action on January 10, 2012, in Bagram, Afghanistan, while serving with the 580th Signal Company.

On January 10, 2012, the ARMY lost SFC Mcdougle, Richard Gene of CONNELLSVILLE, PA in CONNELLSVILLE, UNITED STATES. He was 49.

PFC Dustin Paul Napier, 20, of London, Kentucky, was a U.S. Army infantryman. He died on January 8, 2012, in Qalat, Afghanistan, during Operation Enduring Freedom.

U.S. Army Sergeant Brian Jeffery Leonhardt, 21, of Merrillville, Indiana, was killed in Nilay, Afghanistan, on January 6, 2012.

U.S. Army Staff Sergeant Jonathan Matthew Metzger, 32, of Indianapolis, Indiana, was killed in action on January 6, 2012, in Nilay, Afghanistan.

U.S. Army Specialist Christopher Alexander Patterson, 20, of Aurora, Illinois, was killed on January 6, 2012, in Nilay, Afghanistan.

National Guard, ARMY, 713TH ENGINEER COMPANY (SAPPER), 113TH ENGINEER BATTALION, 81ST TROOP COMMAND, VALPARAISO, IN, SPC Tauteris, Robert Joseph Jr of HAMLET, IN, 44, died in NILAY, AFGHANISTAN on January 6, 2012. Cause: HOSTILE.

Senior Airman Bryan Richard Bell, 23, of Erie, Pennsylvania, was a U.S. Air Force civil engineer. He died from hostile action at Camp Bastion, Afghanistan, on January 5, 2012.

Technical Sergeant Matthew Scott Schwartz, 34, of Traverse City, Michigan, served with the U.S. Air Force's 90th Civil Engineer Squadron. He died on January 5, 2012, at Camp Bastion, Afghanistan.

Airman First Class Matthew Ryan Seidler, 24, of Westminster, Maryland, was a combat engineer with the U.S. Air Force's 21st Civil Engineer Squadron. He died in a hostile incident at Camp Bastion, Afghanistan, on January 5, 2012.

Petty Officer First Class Chad Robert Regelin, 24, of Cottonwood, California, was a U.S. Navy serviceman assigned to Marine Special Operations Company Bravo. He died in a hostile incident at EDB Role II, Afghanistan, on January 2, 2012.