Honoring Lives Lost to Conflict

In BETHESDA, UNITED STATES on August 8, 2012, the ARMY lost MSG Trent, Gregory Ray of NORTON, MA, 38, serving with COMPANY B, 4TH BATTALION, 3RD SPECIAL FORCES GROUP (AIRBORNE), FORT BRAGG, NC. Cause: HOSTILE.

Maj. Walter David Gray, 38, of Conyers, Georgia, was a U.S. Air Force officer with the 13th Air Support Operations Squadron. He died on August 8, 2012, near Combat Outpost Fiaz, Afghanistan.

Petty Officer Second Class Clayton Ross Beauchamp, a 21-year-old American sailor from Weatherford, Texas, was killed in Shaban, Afghanistan, on August 7, 2012.

U.S. Army Specialist Ethan Jacob Martin, 22, of Lewiston, Idaho, died on August 7, 2012, in Koragay, Afghanistan, from hostile action.

Daniel Lee II Linnabary was a 23-year-old U.S. Marine corporal from Hubert, North Carolina. He died in Helmand province, Afghanistan, on August 6, 2012, from hostile action.

Petty Officer First Class Milton W. Brown, 28, of Dallas, Texas, was a U.S. Navy sailor serving with Strike Fighter Squadron 137 (VFA-137). He died on August 4, 2012, in Puerto Real, Spain.

On August 2, 2012, the ARMY lost SSG Sitton, Matthew Steven of LARGO, FL in ZAHARY, AFGHANISTAN. He was 26. Cause: HOSTILE.

U.S. Army First Sergeant Russell Ryan Bell, 37, of Tyler, Texas, was killed in a hostile incident in Zharay, Afghanistan, on August 2, 2012.

Lance Corporal Curtis Joseph Duarte, 22, of Covina, California, was a U.S. Marine killed in Helmand province, Afghanistan, on August 1, 2012.

First Lieutenant Todd William Lambka, 25, of Fraser, Michigan, was killed in action on August 1, 2012, in Bermal, Afghanistan, while serving with the U.S. Army during Operation Enduring Freedom.

Jesus Jonathan Lopez, a 22-year-old U.S. Army Private First Class from San Bernardino, California, died on August 1, 2012, in the Bermal District of Afghanistan.

U.S. Army Sergeant Kyle Brenton McClain, 25, of Rochester Hills, Michigan, was killed in a hostile incident in Salim Aka, Afghanistan, on August 1, 2012.

GYSGT Price, Daniel Joseph, 27, a native of HOLLAND, MI, died serving in the Active Duty, MARINE CORPS, 1ST MSOB, (I MEF FWD), CAMP PENDLETON, CA, during Operation Enduring Freedom on July 29, 2012. Cause: HOSTILE.

Gunnery Sergeant Jonathan William Gifford, a 34-year-old U.S. Marine from Palm Bay, Florida, was killed in a hostile incident in Baghdis Province, Afghanistan, on July 29, 2012.

U.S. Army Sergeant First Class Bobby Lee Estle, 38, of Lebanon, Ohio, was killed in a hostile incident on July 28, 2012, in Meydan Shahr, Afghanistan.

U.S. Army Private First Class Jose Oscar Belmontes, 28, of Los Angeles, California, was killed in a hostile incident in Meydan Shahr, Afghanistan, on July 28, 2012.

At 25, SPC Pleitez, Benjamin Carlos of TURLOCK, CA was serving with the ARMY, 649TH MP CO, 185TH MP BN, 49TH MP BRIGADE, 40TH ID, SAN LUIS OBISPO, CA, when he died in MAZAR-E-SHARIF, AFGHANISTAN on July 27, 2012.

U.S. Army Specialist Theodore Matthew Glende, 23, of Rochester, New York, was killed in action on July 27, 2012, in Kharwar, Afghanistan.