KIA – July 11, 2004
SSG Jeremy J. Fischer was killed by a roadside bomb near Samarra, Iraq. Fischer was part of the 267th Ord Co (Ds), 1776 North 10th Street, Lincoln, NE. 68508 supporting Operation Iraqi Freedom. Jeremy is greatly missed by his family & friends who know what […]
KIA – November 24, 2004
SGT Nicholas Nolte, 25, died while being treated for injuries received when a roadside bomb hit his vehicle near Baghdad. Four other soldiers were also injured. Nolte was a 1998 graduate of Falls City Sacred Heart and enlisted in the Marines after high school. He […]
KIA – December 9, 2007
SGT Michael Bryan Doheny joined the Marine Corp in 1997 as an Infantryman. After completing his first 4-year enlistment, he re-enlisted for an additional 4 years in Security Forces serving in Kings Bay, GA, a Nuclear Submarine Base. He was serving there during the […]
KIA – July 14, 2005
SFC Tricia L. Jameson, a Nebraska Army National Guard medic was killed while trying to treat wounded Marines in western Iraq. She had been in Iraq a little less than three weeks when a roadside improvised explosive device exploded near her Humvee ambulance. According to […]
KIA – July 11, 2004
MSGT Linda Tarango-Griess, a Nebraska Army National Guard soldier, was killed in northern Iraq when a roadside bomb exploded near her convoy in Samarra. Military officials in Iraq said a roadside bomb exploded as a U.S. patrol passed in Samarra, a hotbed of violence 60 miles […]
KIA – August 6, 2011
Sgt. Patrick Hamburger, a member of the Nebraska Army National Guard, was one of 30 Americans killed when a CH-47 Chinook helicopter reportedly was brought down by enemy fire. The Associated Press reported that 30 Americans, including 22 Navy SEALs, were killed along with seven […]
KIA – July 24, 2014
Staff Sgt. Benjamin G. Prange died of wounds suffered during an IED attack on his vehicle in Mirugol Kalay in Afghanistan’s Kandahar Province, according to the U.S. Defense Department. Prange joined the Army in January 2007. A relative said Prange joined in an effort to […]
KIA – June 9, 2006
“He just had a great heart and was really mature for a kid that young,” said Nick Huenink of Plymouth, Neb. “You can’t say enough good things about him.” Slaven, 22, was killed when a roadside bomb hit his Humvee in Diwaniyah, Iraq. The private […]
KIA – August 27, 2006
SSG Jeff Hansen served his local community as a Police Officer in Kearney, NE. He also served his state and country as a Soldier in the Nebraska Army National and as a Law Enforcement Officer for the Department of Veteran’s Affairs (VA). He was a graduate […]
KIA – June 28, 2007
Workman and four other soldiers were killed June 28 when an improvised explosive device was detonated while they were on patrol in Baghdad. Workman was a 2005 graduate of Ashland-Greenwood High School who joined the Army two months after graduating. During his funeral service, […]
