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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.
The Maywand District murders were the thrill killings of at least three Afghan civilians perpetrated by a group of U.S. Army soldiers from January to May 2010, during the War in Afghanistan. The soldiers, who referred to themselves as the "Kill Team", [1] [2] were members of the 3rd Platoon, Bravo Company, 2nd Battalion, 1st Infantry Regiment ...
Jessica Dawn Lynch (born April 26, 1983) is an American teacher, actress, and former United States Army soldier who served in the 2003 invasion of Iraq as a private first class.
An Indiana Army National Guard soldier died in a "non-combat related incident" in Iraq just days after Christmas, the National Guard confirmed to Fox News. The National Guard said Capt. Eric ...
Joshua Lloyd Wheeler (November 22, 1975 – October 22, 2015) was a United States Army soldier who was killed in Iraq during Operation Inherent Resolve. [3] [4] He was a master sergeant assigned to the elite Delta Force, and was the first American service member killed in action as a result of enemy fire while fighting ISIS militants.
January 11, 2020 – Two U.S. service members were killed by a roadside bomb in Afghanistan. [31] January 27, 2020 – Two US Air Force crew members were killed when an E-11A aircraft crashed; February 8, 2020 – Two U.S. Special Operations Soldiers were killed and six service members wounded from an insider "Green on Blue" attack in Nangarhar ...
268,000 - 295,000 people were killed in violence in the Iraq war from March 2003 - Oct. 2018, including 182,272 - 204,575 civilians (using Iraq Body Count's figures), according to the findings of the Costs of War Project, a team of 35 scholars, legal experts, human rights practitioners, and physicians, assembled by Brown University and the ...
Lori Ann Piestewa (/ p aɪ ˈ ɛ s t ə w ɑː / py-ES-tə-wah; [2] December 14, 1979 – March 23, 2003) was a United States Army soldier killed during the Iraq War.A member of the Quartermaster Corps, she died in the same Iraqi attack in which fellow soldiers Shoshana Johnson and Piestewa's friend Jessica Lynch were injured.