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LaVena Lynn Johnson (July 27, 1985 – July 19, 2005) was a soldier in the United States Army who was found dead in a tent in Iraq. Her death was controversially ruled as a suicide but the evidence of rape and battery led her family to believe the United States Department of Defense covered it up.
Pietrzak joined the Marines in 2003, [7] became a helicopter mechanic and was sent to Iraq. After his return, he married Jenkins, whom he had met in 2005 at a party for Marines being deployed to Iraq. Jenkins, who worked for the local Black Infant Care Center, [8] was initially reluctant to date a Marine. But Pietrzak won her over, and they ...
Megan Malia Leilani McClung (April 14, 1972 – December 6, 2006) was the first female United States Marine Corps officer killed in combat during the Iraq War, and the first female graduate of the U.S. Naval Academy to be killed in the line of duty.
Emily Perez was the 64th female member of the U.S. military to be killed in Iraq or Afghanistan and the 40th West Point graduate killed since the September 11, 2001 attacks. She was the first female graduate of West Point to die in Iraq. [1] Perez was buried at the West Point Cemetery. [citation needed]
An eight-person military jury took two hours Friday to find Staff Sgt. Steven Smiley not guilty of negligent homicide and four other counts in the death of Marine recruit Dalton Beals in 2021.
Ramona M. Valdez (June 26, 1984 – June 23, 2005) was a Dominican-born United States Marine who was killed in the Iraq War.She was posthumously honored by the U.S. Marine Corps when the II MEF Communications Training Center was dedicated as the Valdez Training Facility.
Soldiers of the 6888th Central Postal Battalion, the first black women's unit deployed overseas during World War II, pass in review during a 1945 military parade in Birmingham, England.
Armour was born in 1973 in Chicago, Illinois to Gaston Armour Jr. and Authurine Armour. After her parents divorced, Clarence Jackson married Authurine. Both her father and her stepfather had served in the military - Gaston Armour was a retired major in the U.S. Army Reserve, and Clarence Jackson was a former Marine Corps sergeant who served three tours in Vietnam. [2]