CALIFORNIA | LOCAL
July 25, 2010
The Defense Department last week identified the following American military personnel killed in Afghanistan and Iraq, or who died at a U.S. military hospital of their injuries: Justin B. Allen, 23, of Coal Grove, Ohio; sergeant, Army. Allen was shot and killed July 18 during a firefight in the Zhari district of southern Afghanistan's Kandahar province, on the Pakistani border. He was assigned to the 1st Battalion, 75th Ranger Regiment at Hunter Army Airfield, Ga. Justus S. Bartelt, 27, of Polo, Ill.; staff sergeant, Marine Corps.
WORLD
March 19, 2004 | From a Times Staff Writer
Army Spc. Tracy L. Laramore, 30, of Okaloosa, Fla., died Wednesday in Baji, Iraq, of injuries suffered when a Bradley fighting vehicle went over an embankment and flipped into a river, the Pentagon announced Thursday. Laramore was assigned to the 1st Battalion, 18th Infantry Regiment, in Schweinfurt, Germany. His death brought to 570 the number of U.S. troops and civilian coalition employees killed in Iraq.
CALIFORNIA | LOCAL
March 23, 2008
The Defense Department last week identified the following American military personnel killed in Iraq: Lerando J. Brown, 27, of Gulfport, Miss.; specialist, Army National Guard. Brown was found dead March 15 of a gunshot to the chest in Balad, north of Baghdad, in what was termed a nonhostile incident that is under investigation. He was assigned to the 288th Sapper Company, 223rd Engineer Battalion, Mississippi Army National Guard in Houston, Miss. -- Michael D. Elledge, 41, of Brownsburg, Ind.; staff sergeant, Army.