Honoring Lives Lost to Conflict

U.S. Air Force Staff Sergeant Daniel Neil Fannin, 30, of Morehead, Kentucky, was killed in action on April 27, 2013, in Kandahar, Afghanistan.

Capt. Brandon Lee Cyr, 28, of Woodbridge, Virginia, was a U.S. Air Force officer assigned to the 906th Air Refueling Squadron. He died on April 27, 2013, in Kandahar, Afghanistan.

Captain Reid Kijiro Nishizuka, a 30-year-old U.S. Air Force officer from South Bend, Indiana, was killed in action on April 27, 2013, in Kandahar, Afghanistan.

Staff Sgt. Richard Andrew Dickson, 24, of Rancho Cordova, California, was an active-duty U.S. Air Force intelligence analyst. He died on April 27, 2013, in Kandahar, Afghanistan.

U.S. Army First Lieutenant Robert Joseph Hess, 26, was killed in a hostile incident on April 23, 2013, in Pul-e-Alam, Logar Province, Afghanistan.

Captain Aaron Roy Blanchard, 32, of Selah, Washington, was a U.S. Army officer who died in a hostile incident in Pul-e-Alam, Afghanistan, on April 23, 2013.

Private First Class Barrett Lyle Austin, 20, of Easley, South Carolina, was a U.S. Army soldier assigned to Company A, Special Troops Battalion, 4th Brigade Combat Team, Fort Stewart, Georgia. He died on April 20, 2013, at Landstuhl Regiona

CW3 Ruffner, Matthew Paul, 34, a native of TRAFFORD, PA, died serving in the National Guard, ARMY, COMPANY B, 1ST BATTALION, 104TH AVIATION REGIMENT, 28TH COMBAT AVIATION BRIGADE, during Operation Enduring Freedom on April 9, 2013.

TF DESTINY (101 CAB) B CO, 1-104 AVN, CJTF-101, ARMY ? CW2 Yoder, Jarett Michael (MOHNTON, PA), age 26, ? died in PACHIR WA AGAM, AFGHANISTAN on April 9, 2013.

On April 6, 2013, the ARMY lost SGT Santos, Delfin Montemayor Jr of SAN JOSE, CA in KANDAHAR, AFGHANISTAN. He was 24. Cause: HOSTILE.

At 24, SSG Ward, Christopher Michael of OAK RIDGE, TN was serving with the ARMY, TROOP A, 5TH SQUADRON, 7TH CAVALRY, 1ST BRIGADE COMBAT TEAM, when he died in KANDAHAR, AFGHANISTAN on April 6, 2013. Cause: HOSTILE.

In KANDAHAR, AFGHANISTAN on April 6, 2013, the ARMY lost SPC Robles Santa, Wilbel Alexander of JUNCOS, PR, 25, serving with TROOP A, 5TH SQUADRON, 7TH CAVALRY REGIMENT, 1ST ABCT, FORT STEWART, GA. Cause: HOSTILE.

From +WASHINGTON, DC, CAPT Steel, James Michael served with the AIR FORCE, 77TH FIGHTER SQUADRON, SHAW AFB, SC, and died on April 3, 2013 in BAGRAM AIRFIELD, AFGHANISTAN. He was 29.

Curtis Scott Reagan, a 43-year-old Chief Warrant Officer 5 from Summerville, South Carolina, was killed in action on March 29, 2013, in Kandahar, Afghanistan.

U.S. Army Sergeant Michael Christopher Cable, 26, of Philpot, Kentucky, was killed in a hostile incident in Jalalabad, Afghanistan, on March 27, 2013.

SGT Wade, Tristan Mykal, 23, a native of INDIANAPOLIS, IN, died serving in the Active Duty, ARMY, 573RD CLEARANCE COMPANY, 2ND EN BATTALION, 36TH EN BDE, WHITE SANDS MISSILE RANGE, NM, during Operation Enduring Freedom on March 22, 2013. Cause: HOSTILE.

U.S. Army Sergeant First Class James Floyd Grissom, 31, of Hayward, California, died on March 21, 2013, at Landstuhl Regional Medical Center in Germany from wounds sustained in a hostile incident in Afghanistan.

Chief Warrant Officer 3 James Edison Groves III, 37, of Kettering, Ohio, was a U.S. Army helicopter pilot. He was killed in action on March 16, 2013, in Kandahar, Afghanistan.