Honoring Lives Lost to Conflict

U.S. Army Specialist Joseph Brian Cemper, 21, of Warrensburg, Missouri, was killed by hostile action at Forward Operating Base Gamberi, Afghanistan, on April 16, 2011.

In GAMBERI, AFGHANISTAN on April 16, 2011, the ARMY lost SGT Pierre, Linda Lamour of IMMOKALEE, FL, 28, serving with HHC, 101ST SPECIAL TROOPS BATTALION, 101ST SUSTAINMENT BRIGADE, FORT CAMPBELL, KY. Cause: HOSTILE.

SPC Ramirez, Joel Alvarez, age 22, of WAXAHACHIE, TX ? Active Duty, ARMY, COMPANY A, 1ST BATTALION, 32ND INFANTRY REGIMENT, 3RD BRIGADE COMBAT TEAM, FORT DRUM, NY, ? died on April 16, 2011 in AHMID-KHAN, AFGHANISTAN. Cause: HOSTILE.

From BALTIMORE, MD, CPT Ridgley, Charles Edward Jr served with the ARMY, HHC, 17TH CSSB, 3RD MANEUVER ENHANCEMENT BRIGADE, JOINT BASE ELMENDORF-RICHARDSON, AK, and died on April 16, 2011 in GAMBERI, AFGHANISTAN. He was 40. Cause: HOSTILE.

U.S. Army Specialist Joseph Alan Kennedy, 25, of Saint Paul, Minnesota, died on April 15, 2011, in Sini, Afghanistan, while serving with the 2nd Battalion, 2nd Infantry Regiment.

On April 13, 2011, the ARMY lost SPC Nichols, Donald Lee of SHELL ROCK, IA in MEHTAR LAM DISTRICT, AFGHANISTAN. He was 21. Cause: HOSTILE.

U.S. Army Sergeant Brent Matthew Maher, 31, of Council Bluffs, Iowa, was killed in Paktya Province, Afghanistan, on April 11, 2011.

Staff Sergeant Jose Manuel Caraballo Pietri, 32, of Yauco, Puerto Rico, was a U.S. Army artilleryman. He was killed in a hostile incident on April 10, 2011, in Ghormach district, Afghanistan.

COMPANY C, 2D BATTALION, 4TH INFANTRY REGIMENT, 4 BCT, FORT POLK, LA, ARMY ? PFC Pickering, Brandon Thomas (FORT THOMAS, KY), age 21, ? died in LANDSTUHL, GERMANY on April 10, 2011. Cause: HOSTILE.

Sergeant Vorasack Thomas Xaysana, 30, of Westminster, Colorado, was a U.S. Army soldier killed in action on April 10, 2011, in Kirkuk, Iraq.

Active Duty, MARINE CORPS, 2D CEB, (1ST CEB, II MEF FWD), 2D MAR DIV, CAMP LEJEUNE, NC, SSGT Rogers, Jason Aaron of BRANDON, MS, 28, died in HELMAND PROVINCE, AFGHANISTAN on April 7, 2011. Cause: HOSTILE.

U.S. Army Sergeant Keith Thomas Buzinski, 26, of Daytona Beach, Florida, was killed by hostile fire on April 7, 2011, at Forward Operating Base Shank in Afghanistan's Logar Province.

Reserve, MARINE CORPS, A CO, 1ST BN, 23D MAR, (RCT-8, II MEF FWD), 4TH MAR DIV, HOUSTON, TX, SSGT Smith, Jeremy Daniel of ARLINGTON, TX, 26, died in HELMAND PROVINCE, AFGHANISTAN on April 6, 2011. Cause: HOSTILE.

On April 6, 2011, the NAVY lost HN Rast, Benjamin David of NILES, MI in SHAYKH-MUJHAMIHALYAN, AFGHANISTAN. He was 23. Cause: HOSTILE.

U.S. Army Specialist Gary Lee Nelson III, 20, of Woodstock, Georgia, was killed in action in Mosul, Iraq, on April 5, 2011.

U.S. Army Staff Sergeant Michael Scott Lammerts, 26, of Tonawanda, New York, was killed in action on April 4, 2011, in Maymaneh City, Afghanistan.

U.S. Army Major Wesley James Hinkley, 36, of Carlisle, Pennsylvania, was killed in action in Baghdad, Iraq, on April 4, 2011.

U.S. Army Staff Sergeant Scott Hamilton Burgess, 32, of Franklin, Texas, died on April 4, 2011, in Maymaneh City, Afghanistan.