In almost 20 years of battle, dozens from Tucson and Southern Arizona have died within the conflicts in Iraq and Afghanistan, and elsewhere.

Right here is our temporary tribute to them.

Killed in Iraq

U.S. Military Sgt. Sean Kelly Cataudella, 28. Died: Aug. 30, 2003, after a car accident in Ba’qubah close to Tikrit, Iraq. Assigned to 1st Squadron, tenth Cavalry Regiment, 4th Infantry Division, based mostly in Fort Hood, Texas.
Tucson tie: Rincon Excessive Class of 1994.

U.S. Military Chief Warrant Officer Christopher Nason, 39. Died: Nov. 23, 2003, in Iraq. He was assigned to A Firm, 306th Army Intelligence Battalion.
Southern Arizona tie: The Los Angeles native was stationed at Fort Huachuca.

U.S. Military Spc. Isaac Campoy, 21. Died: Oct. 28, 2003, when his tank hit a roadside bomb in Baqubah, Iraq. He was assigned to the third Battalion, 67th Armor Regiment, Fort Hood, Texas
Southern Arizona tie: Graduated from Douglas Excessive Faculty in 2001.

U.S. Military Sgt. Benjamin Biskie, 27. Died: Dec. 24, 2003, close to Samarra, Iraq. He was assigned to fifth Engineer Battalion, 1st Engineer Brigade, based mostly in Fort Leonard Wooden, Mo.
Tucson tie: Attended Tucson Junior Academy parochial college. In his junior yr, he moved together with his mom to Vermillion, Ohio, in 1993.

U.S. Military Sgt. Michael Merila, 23. Died: Feb. 16, 2004, after an explosion hit his convoy in northern Iraq the day earlier than his twenty fourth birthday. He was assigned to Headquarters and Headquarters Troop, 1st Squadron, 14th Cavalry Regiment, Fort Lewis, Wash.
Southern Arizona tie: Graduated from Buena Excessive Faculty in Sierra Vista.

U.S. Marine Lance Cpl. Robert Paul Zurheide Jr., 20. Died: April 12, 2004, close to Fallujah, Iraq. He was a rifleman assigned to 2nd Battalion, 1st Marine Regiment, based mostly in Camp Pendleton, Calif.
Tucson tie: Desert View Excessive Class of 2001.

U.S. Marine Cpl. Jeffrey David Lawrence, 22. Died July 6, 2004, close to Fallujah, Iraq. He was assigned to Delta Firm, 2nd Gentle Armored Reconnaissance Battalion, based mostly in Camp LeJeune, N.C.
Tucson tie: Palo Verde Excessive Magnet Class of 2000.

U.S. Military Spc. Robert Oliver Unruh, 25. Died: Sept. 25, 2004, Al Anbar Province, Iraq. He was assigned to the forty fourth Engineer Battalion, based mostly in Camp Howze, Korea.
Tucson tie: Lived in Tucson a part of his youth, then Virginia, returning to Tucson in 2002.

U.S. Marine Lance Cpl. Joshua E. Lucero, 19. Died: Nov. 27, 2004, within the Al Anbar province, Iraq. He was assigned to 2nd Fight Engineer Battalion of 2nd Marine Division, based mostly in Camp Lejeune, N.C.
Tucson tie: Sunnyside Excessive Class of 2003.

U.S. Military Reserve Employees Sgt. Tina Time, 22. Died: Dec. 13, 2004, after a car accident throughout a mud storm in southeast Iraq. She was assigned to 208th Transportation Co., based mostly in Tucson.
Tucson tie: Lived in Tucson whereas attending Pima Group School and joined the reserves; moved to Texas earlier than her unit was activated.

U.S. Military Pfc. Sam Williams Huff, 18. Died April 17, 2005, after her Humvee was hit by a roadside bomb close to Baghdad. She was assigned to a hundred and seventieth Army Police Firm, 504th Army Police Battalion, forty second Army Police Brigade, based mostly in Fort Lewis, Wash.
Tucson tie: Mountain View Excessive Class of 2004.

U.S. Marine Corps Grasp Sgt. Kenneth E. Hunt Jr., 40. Died Oct. 12, 2005, in Brooke Military Medical Heart in Texas, from accidents acquired July 24 when the armored Humvee he was in was hit by an anti-tank mine in Al Taqaddum, Al-Anbar province west of Baghdad. He was assigned to Marine Wing Help Group 37, third Marine Plane Wing, I Marine Expeditionary Pressure, based mostly at Marine Corps Air Station Yuma.
Tucson tie: Santa Rita Excessive Class of 1983.

U.S. Military Spc. Thomas H. Byrd, 21. Died: Oct. 15, 2005, in Ar Ramadi, Iraq, when a roadside bomb detonated close to the M2A2 Bradley Combating Automobile he was in throughout fight operations. He was assigned to 2nd Battalion, 69th Armor Regiment, third Brigade, third Infantry Division, based mostly in Fort Benning, Ga.
Tucson tie: Santa Rita Excessive Class of 2003.

U.S. Marine Cpl. Brandon Scott Schuck, 21. Died: Feb. 6, 2006, from accidents on account of an improvised explosive gadget close to Baghdad.
Southern Arizona tie: A Safford Excessive Faculty graduate.

U.S. Military 1st Sgt. Bobby Mendez, 38. Died: April 27, 2006, when his car was hit by an improvised explosive gadget in Baghdad. He was assigned to the 2nd Particular Troops Battalion, 2nd Brigade, 4th Infantry Division, Fort Hood, Tex.
Southern Arizona tie: TThe former Fort Huachuca soldier’s famliy lives in Sierra Vista. He was killed in motion on his son’s birthday.

U.S. Military Sgt. Mark R. Vecchione, 25. Died: July 18, 2006, in Ar Ramadi, Iraq, when a roadside bomb blew up close to his tank. He was assigned to 1st Battalion, thirty seventh Armored Regiment of the first Armored Division, based mostly in in Friedberg, Germany.
Tucson tie: Sahuaro Excessive Faculty Class of 1999.

U.S. Navy Hospitalman Chadwick Thomas Kenyon, 20. Died: Aug. 20, 2006, in Al Anbar province of accidents suffered when his car was struck by an improvised explosive gadget whereas conducting fight operations towards enemy forces. He was assigned to third Gentle Armored Reconnaissance Battalion, 1st Marine Division, I Marine Expeditionary Pressure, based mostly in Twentynine Palms, Calif.
Tucson tie: Mountain View Excessive Faculty Class of 2004.

U.S. Military Cpl. Casey L. Mellen, 21. Died: Sept. 25, 2006, in Balad, Iraq, after his patrol group was hit by small arms hearth throughout fight in Mosul. Mellen was assigned to Fort Lewis, south of Tacoma, Wash.
Southern Arizona tie: Huachuca Metropolis resident.

U.S. Marine Lance Cpl. Budd M. Cote, 21. Died: Dec. 11, 2006, after the Humvee he was using in was hit a roadside bomb in Al Anbar province, Iraq. He was assigned to Marine Wing Help Squadron 373, based mostly out of the Marine Corps Air Station at Miramar, Calif.
Tucson tie: Attended Marana and Mountain View excessive faculties earlier than transferring quickly to Las Vegas. He returned to Tucson and attended Canyon del Oro Excessive, dropped out and acquired his GED earlier than becoming a member of the Marines.

Military Spc. Collin R. Schockmel, 19. Died: Jan. 16, 2007, in Ramadi, Iraq, when his unit was attacked by rocket-propelled grenades. He weas assigned to the first Battalion, ninth Infantry Regiment, 2nd Brigade Fight Group, 2nd Infantry Division, Fort Carson, Colo.
Southern Arizona tie: Spend a lot of his childhood in Sierra Vista and attended Buena Excessive Faculty.

U.S. Military Sgt. 1st Class Russell P. Borea, 38. Died: Jan. 19, 2007, when a roadside bomb detonated close to his car in Mosul. He was with the first Cavalry Division from Fort Bliss, Texas.
Tucson tie: Catalina Magnet Excessive Faculty Class of 1986. Spouse, Nicole, 37, is a 1989 Sahuaro Excessive Faculty graduate.

U.S. Military Sgt. Sean Fennerty, 26. Died: Jan. 20, 2007, in Anbar Province when the car through which he was using was hit by a roadside bomb.
Tucson tie: attended Fruchtendler Elementary Faculty and St. Cyril’s Faculty.

U.S. Military Cpl. Victor Langarica, 29. Died: Jan. 20, 2007, when the UH-60 Black Hawk helicopter he was in crashed in Baghdad.
Southern Arizona tie: Stationed in Fort Huachuca.

U.S. Military Spc. Alan E. McPeek, 20. Died: Feb. 2, 2007, in Ramadi of accidents sustained when his troop got here involved with enemy forces utilizing small arms hearth. He was assigned to the sixteenth Engineer Battalion, 1st Brigade Fight Group, 1st Armored Division, based mostly in Giessen, Germany.
Tucson tie: Mountain View Excessive Faculty Class of 2004.

U.S. Military Employees Sgt. Darrel Kasson, 43. Died: March 4, 2007, in Bayji, Iraq, when an improvised explosive gadget exploded close to his Humvee. Was deployed with the Arizona Military Nationwide Guard’s 259th Engineer Firm, based mostly in Phoenix. He was a member of the Alpha Battery, 2-A hundred and eightieth Subject Artillery Battalion and was serving at Camp Anaconda within the Sunni Triangle.
Tucson tie: Amphitheater Excessive Faculty Class of 1982.

U.S. Military Employees Sgt. Damian Lopez-Rodriguez, 19. Died: April 6, 2007, when an improvised explosive gadget exploded close to his Humvee. Military’s 1st Battalion, 18th Infantry Division, 2nd Brigade Fight Group, 1st Infantry Division, based mostly in Schweinfurt, Germany.
Tucson tie: Pueblo Excessive Faculty Class of 2005.

U.S. Military Sgt. 1st Class Christopher R. Brevard, 31: Died: March 16, 2007, when a roadside bomb exploded in Baghdad. Served with the first Battalion, 501st Infantry Regiment, 4th Airborne Brigade Fight Group, twenty fifth Infantry Division, based mostly at Fort Richardson, Alaska.
Tucson tie: Spent his childhood — from ages 6 to 16 — in Tucson, till his Air Pressure father was transferred to Alaska in 1991.

U.S. Military Sgt. Gary D. Willett, 34: Died: February 8, 2008, when his car hit an improvised explosive gadget in Taji, Iraq. Served with the first Battalion, twenty first Infantry Regiment, 2nd Stryker Brigade Fight Group within the Military’s twenty fifth Infantry Division, based mostly at Schofield Barracks, Hawaii.
Tucson tie: Willett’s mom lives in Tucson.

U.S. Military Sgt. Victor M. Cota, 33. Died: Might 14, 2008, when his car struck improvised explosive gadget in Kadamiyah, Iraq. He was assigned to the Particular Troops Battalion, 4th Infantry Division at Fort Hood, Texas.
Tucson tie: Graduated from Tucson Excessive Faculty, Class of 1993.

U.S. Military Chief Warrant Officer Robert C. Hammett, 39. Died: June 24, 2008, when a bomb exploded in Baghdad, Iraq. He was assigned to the third Brigade Fight Group, 4th Infantry Division out of Fort Carson, Colorado.
Tucson tie: The Tucson native labored on the VA Well being Care System earlier than becoming a member of the Military in 1990.

Killed in Afghanistan

U.S. Air Pressure Airman First Class Raymond Losano, 24. Died: April 25, 2003, in japanese Afghanistan. He was assigned to 14th Air Help Operations Squadron, based mostly at Pope Air Pressure Base, N.C. and deployed to Afghanistan with 82nd Airborne Division of Fort Bragg, N.C.
Tucson tie: Attended enterprise courses at Pima Group School.

U.S. Military Sgt. Kenneth G. Ross, 24. Died: Sept. 25, 2005, in a helicopter crash in Afghanistan’s Deh Chopan district, 180 miles southwest of Kabul. He was assigned to seventh Battalion, 159th Aviation Regiment, based mostly in Giebelstadt, Germany.
Tucson tie: Mountain View Excessive Faculty Class of 1999.

U.S. Military Employees Sgt. Charles R. Browning, 31. Died: Might 31, 2007, when his car struck a roadside bomb in Mehtar Lam, Afghanistan. He served with the Arizona Military Nationwide Guard’s Gilbert-based B Firm, 1-158th Infantry Battalion.
Tucson tie: Resident of Florence. Grew up in Tucson, graduated from Palo Verde Excessive Magnet Faculty.

U.S. Military Employees Sgt. Ernesto Guadalupe Cimarrusti, 25, of Douglas. Died: March 10, 2008, in Baghdad, Iraq, after a suicide bombing. He was assigned to the first Battalion, sixty fourth Armor Regiment, 2nd Brigade Fight Group, third Infantry Division, Fort Stewart, Ga.
Southern Arizona tie: Graduated from Douglas Excessive Faculty in 2000.

U.S. Marine Cpl. Stewart S. Trejo, 25, of Whitefish, Mont. Died: Aug. 7, 2008, after a car accident in Anbar province, Iraq. He was assigned to the first Upkeep Battalion, 1st Marine Logistics Group, I Marine Expeditionary Pressure, Camp Pendleton, Calif.
Southern Arizona tie: Started highschool in Nogales. Trejo’s mother and father, a number of siblings and his grandmother stay in Tucson.

U.S. Military Pvt. Joseph F. Gonzales, 18. Died: Sept. 20, 2008, when his car encountered an improvised explosive gadget within the Korengal Valley of Afghanistan. He served with the first Battalion, twenty sixth Infantry Regiment, third Brigade Fight Group, 1st Infantry Division.
Tucson tie: Tucson native. Attended Sunnyside Excessive Faculty for 3 years.

U.S. Military Cpl. Charles P. Gaffney Jr., 42, of Phoenix. Died: Dec. 24, 2008, in Paktika province, Afghanistan, when his fight outpost got here below rocket hearth. He was assigned to the 2nd Battalion, 506th Infantry Regiment, 4th Brigade Fight Group, one hundred and first Airborne Division (Air Assault), Fort Campbell, Ky.
Tucson tie: Lived in Tucson within the Nineteen Seventies and ’80s.

U.S. Military Grasp Sgt. David L. Damage, 36. Died: February 23, 2009, died from accidents brought on by an improvised explosive gadget. He served with the first Battalion, third Particular Forces Group.
Tucson tie: Damage, a local of Oak Park, Sick., moved to Tucson together with his household at age 3.

U.S. Air Pressure Employees Sgt. Timothy L. Bowles, 24. Died: March 15, 2009, in japanese Afghanistan from wounds from a roadside bomb. He was assigned to the third Logistics Readiness Squadron, Elmendorf Air Pressure Base, Alaska.
Tucson tie: Graduated from Tucson Excessive Faculty in 2002 and attended Pima Group School earlier than becoming a member of the Air Pressure.

U.S. Military Sgt. Justin Gallegos, 27. Died: Oct. 3, 2009, in Kamdesh, Afghanistan, when his outpost close to the border with Pakistan was attacked. He served with the third Squadron, 61st Cavalry Regiment, 4th Brigade Fight Group, 4th Infantry Division, Fort Carson, Colo.
Tucson tie: Graduated from Tucson Excessive Magnet Faculty.

U.S. Air Pressure Tech Sgt. Michael P. Flores, 32. Died: June 9, 2010, when a helicopter carrying the pararescueman was shot down in Helmand province, Afghanistan. He served with the forty eighth Rescue Squadron.
Tucson tie: The San Antonio resident was based mostly at Davis-Monthan Air Pressure Base.

U.S. Air Pressure Senior Airman Benjamin D. White, 24. Died: June 9, 2010, when a helicopter carrying the pararescueman was shot down in Helmand province, Afghanistan. He served with the forty eighth Rescue Squadron.
Tucson tie: The Erwin, Tenn., resident was based mostly at Davis-Monthan Air Pressure Base.

U.S. Military Spc. Christian M. Adams, 26. Died: June 11, 2010, in Kandahar, Afghanistan of wounds from a non-combat incident. He served with the twentieth Engineer Battalion, thirty sixth Engineer Brigade, based mostly in Fort Hood, Texas.
Southern Arizona tie: A Sierra Vista native.

U.S. Military Spc. Christopher J. Moon, 20. Died: July 13, 2010, from accidents he suffered after stepping on a roadside bomb on July 6. He was serving within the Arghandab Valley north of Kandahar, Afghanistan, with the 2nd Battalion, 508th Parachute Infantry Regiment of the Military’s 82nd Airborne Division, based mostly at Fort Bragg, N.C.
Tucson tie: Performed baseball at Tucson Magnet Excessive Faculty and the College of Arizona.

U.S. Military Sgt. Martin Lugo, 24. Died: Aug. 19, 2010, in Puli Alam, Afghanistan, when his unit was attacked by insurgents. He served with the first Battalion, seventy fifth Ranger Regiment, based mostly at Hunter Military Air Subject, Ga.
Tucson tie: Graduated from Tucson Excessive Magnet Faculty in 2004.

U.S. Military Sgt. 1st Class Todd Harris, 37. Died: Nov. 5, 2010, in Badghis province, Afghanistan, of wounds suffered when insurgents attacked his unit with small arms hearth. He was assigned to the 87th Infantry Battalion, 1st Brigade Fight Group, tenth Mountain Division, Fort Drum, N.Y.
Tucson tie: Harris was a standout soccer participant for Sahuaro Excessive Faculty within the Nineteen Nineties.

U.S. Marine Lance Cpl. Randy R. Braggs, 21, of Sierra Vista. Died: Nov. 6, 2010, whereas conducting fight operations in Helmand province, Afghanistan. He was assigned to the third Battalion, fifth Marine Regiment, 1st Marine Division, I Marine Expeditionary Pressure, Camp Pendleton, Calif.
Tucson tie: Graduated from Buena Excessive Faculty in Sierra Vista.

U.S. Military Nationwide Guard SFC James E. Thode, 45, of Farmington, N.M. Died: Dec. 2, 2010, Sabari District in Afghanistan’s Khowst Province throughout a roadside bombing. He was assigned to the 1457th Engineer Battalion, 204th Maneuver Enhancement Brigade, Salt Lake Metropolis, Utah.

Tucson tie: Grew up in Tucson, graduated from Catalina Excessive Faculty and the College of Arizona.

U.S. Military Pfc. Robert J. Close to, 21, of Nampa, Idaho. Died: Jan. 7, 2011, whereas supporting fight operations. He was assigned to the 86th Sign Battalion based mostly at Fort Huachuca.

Southern Arizona tie: Stationed at Ft. Huachuca.

U.S. Air Pressure Capt. Nathan Nylander, 35. Died: Apr. 27, 2011, throughout a taking pictures on a base in Kabul, Afghanistan. He was a flight commander with the 438th Air Expeditionary Advisory Group from Davis-Monthan.
Tucson tie: Grew up in Waller, Texas, lived in Tucson together with his spouse and three youngsters.

U.S. Military Employees Sgt. Orion N. Sparks, 29. Died: Sept. 26, 2012, throughout a suicide assault in Pul-E Alam, Afghanistan. He was assigned to the first Squadron, 91st Cavalry Regiment, 173rd Airborne Brigade Fight Group, Schweinfurt, Germany.

U.S. Military Sgt. 1st Class Ryan J. Savaard, 29. Died: Oct. 13, 2012, whereas on patrol in Khanabad District, Afghanistan, throughout his fifth deployment. He was assigned to Headquarters and Headquarters Firm, U.S. Military Particular Operations Command at Fort Bragg, N.C.
Tucson tie: Graduated from Sierra Vista’s Buena Excessive Faculty in 2001.

U.S. Military Command Sgt. Main Nicholas L. McCaskill, 41. Died: April 6, 2013, throughout a suicide assault in Afghanistan whereas working as a non-public safety contractor. He had served in fight as a pararescueman, and was a part of the USAFR’s 306th Rescue Squadron, based mostly at Davis-Monthan Air Pressure Base.

U.S. Military Command Grasp Sgt. Martin R. Barreras, 49. Died: Might 13, 2014, in Texas of wounds suffered throughout a Might 6 assault in Harat Province, Afghanistan. He was assigned to the 2nd Battalion, fifth Infantry Regiment, third Brigade Fight Group, Fort Bliss, Texas.
Tucson tie: Graduated from Sunnyside Excessive Faculty.

Carlos Carrasco. Died: Oct. 2, 2015, as a C-130 transport aircraft crashed on takeoff from Jalalabad Air Subject in japanese Afghanistan. He was a civilian contractor for Northrup Grumman, working as a drone mechanic and technician.
Tucson tie: Graduated from Tombstone Excessive Faculty.

Killed in different nations

Employees Sgt. Kevin J. McEnroe, 30. Died: Nov. 4, 2016, in an assault on a convoy in Jafr, Jordan. He was certainly one of three Airborne troopers killed as they entered a navy base whereas on a coaching mission as a part of the U.S. navy motion towards the Islamic State. He was with the fifth Particular Forces Group (Airborne), based mostly at Fort Campbell, Ky.

Died from sickness or outdoors fight areas

U.S. Military Capt. Gilbert A. Munoz, 29. Died: Feb. 9, 2005, from a staph an infection lower than two weeks after coming back from a scouting mission in Iraq. He was to guide a Particular Forces group into Iraq to assist practice Iraqis to take over safety of their nation. He was with the Third Batallion of the seventh Particular Forces Group, based mostly in Fort Bragg, N.C.
Tucson tie: Tucson native and Salpointe Catholic Excessive Faculty class of ‘94.

U.S. Military Spc. Scott Mullen, 22. Died: Oct. 14, 2005, in Makati Metropolis, The Republic of the Philippines, from accidents sustained whereas on go away within the nation. He was stationed within the Philippines with the fifth Battalion, 4th Psychological Operations Group, U.S. Military Civil Affairs and Psychological Operations Command, based mostly in Fort Bragg, N.C.
Tucson tie: Catalina Foothills Excessive Faculty Class of 2002.

U.S. Marine Sgt. Aron C. Blum, 22. Died: Dec. 28, 2006 of an sickness at Naval Medical Heart in San Diego after being evacuated Dec. 8 from Al Anbar province. He was assigned to Marine Aerial Refueler Transport Squadron 352, Marine Plane Group 11, third Marine Plane Wing, I Marine Expeditionary Pressure at Marine Corps Air Station, based mostly in Miramar, Calif.
Tucson tie: Sahuaro Excessive Faculty Class of 2002.