Monday, October 02, 2006 5:30 AM - CENTCOM's headquarters in Iraq, MNF-Iraq, is reporting the deaths of three U.S. Marines on October 1st in the Al Anbar Province. Two Marines died from enemy action. One was killed in a vehicle accident.

Monday, October 02, 2006 6:00 AM - The British Ministry of Defense has announced the death of one of their soldiers in an indirect fire attack on the Shaat Al Arab Hotel base in Basra City on October 1st. The BBC is reporting that some 15 mortars were fired at the base, three or four landing inside the perimeter. One other soldier was seriously wounded in the attack.

Monday, October 02, 2006 12:20 PM -
	(1) MNF-Iraq is reporting the death of a soldier on October 1st when his vehicle was hit by a roadside bomb west of Baghdad.
	(2) MNF-Iraq is also reporting the death of a soldier on October 2nd from a small arms fire attack in central Baghdad.

Monday, October 02, 2006 12:43 PM - The South Bend Tribune is reporting the death of Marine Reservist Aaron Seal, 23, of Elkhart, Indiana, on October 1st from sniper fire. He was with Company B of the 6th Engineer Support Battalion based in South Bend, which was recently deployed to Iraq.

Tuesday, October 03, 2006 5:12 AM -
	(1) The British Ministry of Defense has identified the soldier who died in a mortar attack on his base in northern Basrah on October 1st: Lance Corporal Dennis Brady, 37, of Barrow-in-Furness in Cumbria, England. The article identifies him as a reservist who had left the regular army in 2004 and had volunteered for duty in both Afghanistan and Iraq.
	(2) MNF-Iraq is reporting the death of a "Multi-National Corps - Iraq separate brigade Soldier" from small arms fire in northern Baghdad on October 2nd.
	(3) MNF-Iraq is also reporting the death of a soldier from small arms fire in southwest Baghdad on October 2nd.

Tuesday, October 03, 2006 6:00 AM -
	(1) MNF-Iraq is reporting the death of a U.S. Marine from enemy action in the western half of Al Anbar Province on October 1st. This is in addition to the 3 other Marines already reported dead on that date.
	(2) CENTCOM is reporting that four U.S. soldiers were killed by an improvised explosive device northwest of Baghdad on October 2nd.

Tuesday, October 03, 2006 6:37 AM - CENTCOM is reporting one more death on October 2nd: a small arms fire death in northern Baghdad. This one occurred at 11:05 AM.

Tuesday, October 03, 2006 12:37 PM -
	(1) The Hartford Herald Courant has a detailed report out on a death and three serious injuries that occurred this weekend to the Marine Reserve unit Charlie Company, 1st Battalion, 25th Marine Regiment, 4th Marine Division, currently serving in Fallujah. The dead man was identified as Lance Corporal Christopher Benedict Cosgrove III, 23, of Cedar Knolls, New Jersey. He was killed when a suicide car bomber drove up to Cosgrove's checkpoint in northeast Fallujah and detonated his payload. This particular unit lost two men in Fallujah on September 4th. At that time CENTCOM described the unit as being attached to Regimental Combat Team 5. Because of this, we now believe that Cosgrove was the Regimental Combat Team 5 death described in this CENTCOM release.
	(2) The DoD has confirmed the death of Marine Reserve Corporal Aaron L. Seal, 23, of Elkhart, Indiana, on October 1st. His unit, B Company of the 6th Engineer Support Battalion, a reserve unit out of South Bend, Indiana, is based at Camp Taqaddum near Habbaniyah. He could very well have been the "Marine assigned to 1st Marine Expeditionary Force Headquarters Group" who died in combat as described in this CENTCOM release. A short news item on Seal's death appears at the WNDU-TV website.

Tuesday, October 03, 2006 5:24 PM -
	(1) The DoD has confirmed the death of Marine Reserve Lance Corporal Christopher B. Cosgrove III, 23, of Cedar Knolls, New Jersey, in the Al Anbar Province on October 1st from enemy action.
	(2) The DoD has identified the soldier who died in an IED attack west of Baghdad on October 1st: Corporal Chase A. Haag, 22, of Portland, Oregon.  KATU Portland has published a nice story with details about Chase's life, family and friends.  Haag was "enamored with video production, direction and editing.  In a class of 30, he produced and directed a monthly news magazine for students."
Chase A. Haag, 22, Portland, Oregon
	(3) The DoD has also identified one of the four soldiers killed by small arms fire in Baghdad on October 2nd: Staff Sergeant Joe A. Narvaez, 25, of San Antonio, Texas. His assigned unit, the 1st Battalion of the 26th Infantry Regiment based out of Schweinfurt, Germany, was newly arrived in Iraq last August and split between FOB Rustamiyah and FOB Loyalty, both bases in eastern Baghdad. For that reason, we are inclined to believe him to be the central Baghdad death reported by CENTCOM in this news release. This could change, however, as the identities of the other deaths that day are released.
	(4) The DoD has announced a new death on October 1st, not previously reported by CENTCOM or the news media. Army Sergeant Mario Nelson, 26, of Brooklyn, New York, was killed when a rocket propelled grenade exploded near his vehicle in the vicinity of Hit in the Al Anbar Province.
	(5) The Associated Press is reporting the death of a female soldier in Kuwait on October 1st of a non-hostile cause. No further details are apparently available at this time.

Tuesday, October 03, 2006 6:48 PM - The DoD has identified another one of the four soldiers killed by small arms fire in the Baghdad area on October 2nd: Private 1st Class Satieon V. Greenlee, 24, of Pendleton, South Carolina. His unit, the 4th Battalion of the 31st Infantry Regiment out of Fort Drum, New York, experienced another death on September 19th ... Cpl. Robert Callahan, who died in a vehicle accident in southwest Baghdad. Thus, it is likely that Pfc. Greenlee was the small arms fire death in "southwest Baghdad" described in this CENTCOM release.

Wednesday, October 04, 2006 2:31 AM -
	(1) The DoD has released the identity of the third soldier killed by small arms fire in Baghdad on October 2nd: Private 1st Class Michael K. Oremus, 21, of Highland, New York. An article in the Poughkeepsie Journal provides some background on the young man, the third soldier from the small community of Highland to die in Iraq.
Michael K. Oremus, 21, Highland, New York
	(2) MNF-Iraq is reporting the death of a Task Force Lightning soldier in what would appear to be a small arms fire attack near Kirkuk on October 3rd.

Wednesday, October 04, 2006 5:13 AM - MNF-Iraq is reporting the death of yet another soldier by small arms fire in the Baghdad area ... this one in east Baghdad on October 3rd.

Wednesday, October 04, 2006 10:48 AM -
	(1) The DoD has identified the Marine who died in a non-hostile vehicle accident in Al Anbar Province on October 1st: Captain Justin D. Peterson, 32, of Davisburg, Michigan.
Justin D. Peterson, 32, Davisburg, Michigan
	(2) The DoD has also identified the soldier who died in a non-hostile unspecified incident at Camp Arifjan in Kuwait on October 1st: Sergeant Denise A. Lannaman, 46, of Bayside, New York. (See media report and photo below.)

Wednesday, October 04, 2006 1:25 PM - MNF-Iraq has just announced the deaths of four U.S. soldiers on October 4th in a small arms fire and mortar attack northwest of Baghdad ... the same area in which four soldiers died October 2nd in an IED attack.

Wednesday, October 04, 2006 4:50 PM - The DoD has identified the last of the four soldiers who were killed in Baghdad by small arms fire on October 2nd: Sergeant Joseph W. Perry, 23, of Alpine, California. He definitely died in the Baghdad area. His unit, the 21st Military Police Company, worked throughout central and southern Baghdad training Iraqi police officers.

Thursday, October 05, 2006 3:35 AM - The DoD has released the identity of the soldier who died in a small arms fire attack in east Baghdad on October 3rd: Staff Sergeant Jonathan Rojas, 27, of Hammond, Indiana. The Gary Post Tribune revealed this morning that the sergeant should have gone home two months ago, but had his stay in Iraq extended along with the rest of his 172nd Stryker Brigade Combat Team out of Fort Wainwright, Alaska. On Tuesday of this week, he was shot in the head by a sniper and killed.

Thursday, October 05, 2006 5:05 AM - The New York Daily News has a few more details on Sergeant Denise Lannaman, 46, of Queens Village, New York, who died at Camp Arifjan in Kuwait on October 1st. She grew up in Jamaica, but immigrated to the U.S. and served several years in the U.S. Navy before returning to the island. She came back, however, after September 11, 2001, and signed on with the Army National Guard in New York. She was "an electrician and mechanic who could repair almost anything." At present, the details of her death are not known, not even to her family. (See DoD release above.)

Denise Lannaman, 46 Queens Village, New York

	Thursday, October 05, 2006 9:57 AM - The DoD has released the identity of the soldier who was wounded near Kirkuk on October 3rd in a small arms fire attack and later died: Staff Sergeant Daniel Isshak, 25, of Alta Loma, California. Apparently, the incident happened near Hawijah, which is about half way between Bayji and Kirkuk, but the sergeant made it to military medical facilities in Tikrit before he succumbed to his injuries.
Daniel Isshak, at age 7, Alta Loma, California		Daniel Isshak funeral, Anaheim, California
October 10, 2006 - Excerpts from The Orange County Register account of Daniel Isshak's funeral and Muslim burial in Westminster Memorial Park, in Anaheim, CA, where he spent his childhood: After the family moved to Alta Loma in 1992, they stayed involved in the local Circassian community. About 1,000 Circassians – Muslims who originated from southern Russia – live in Orange County, CA. Isshak took Circassian language and dance classes when he was a child and teenager.

Thursday, October 05, 2006 1:18 PM - MNF-Iraq is reporting the deaths of two U.S. Marines from enemy action in the Al Anbar Province on October 4th.

Thursday, October 05, 2006 4:37 PM -
	(1) Slowly, details are beginning to surface in the news media about the 4 deaths from an IED attack northwest of Baghdad on October 2nd ... and the 4 from a small arms attack in the same area on October 4th. HOI News Online in Illinois is reporting the names of two Illinoians who attended the same high school together, joined the army under the "buddy program" together, and who died in Baghdad within 2 days of each other: 20 year old Specialist Kristoffer Walker and 20 year old Specialist George Obourn, Jr., both originally from Creve Coeur, Illinois. It is believed that Walker died in the IED attack on the 2nd, and Obourn when the building he was in, a warehouse, was mortared and attacked by small arms fire on the 4th.
		George Obourn, Jr., 20 Creve Coeur, Illinois
	(2) In addition, the Oregon News Review is reporting the death of Army Private 1st Class Dean Robert Bright, 32, of Sutherlin, Oregon, in the warehouse attack on October 4th. This article identifies the unit involved as the 4th Infantry Division out of Fort Hood, Texas.

Friday, October 06, 2006 6:08 AM -
	(1) The DoD has announced the identities of the two Marines who died in enemy action in the Al Anbar Province on October 4th:
	Lance Corporal Edward M. Garvin, 19, Malden, Mass.
	Corporal Benjamin S. Rosales, 20, of Houston, Texas
	(2) The South Florida News-Press is reporting the name of another of the four soldiers who died just northwest of Baghdad in Taji on October 4th: Specialist Timothy Burke, 24, of Hollywood, Florida. This item also gives more information about the unit involved: B Troop of the 7th Squadron, 10th Cavalry Regiment, 1st Brigade, 4th Infantry Division out of Fort Hood, Texas.
		Timothy Burke and Family
	(3) The Danish Ministry of Defense has announced the death of one of their soldiers in Iraq on the evening of October 5th. Roughly, the news release indicates that a Danish unit was involved in an operation Thursday evening to stop a group of insurgents who had been rocketting and mortaring the Danish and British camps in southern Iraq. The Danish soldier was gravely injured in that effort. He was transported by helicopter to a British field hospital where he died from his wounds. His relatives have been notified, but his name does not appear to have been released yet. The Associated Press has a brief article on the death here.

Friday, October 06, 2006 6:35 AM - According to this article in The International News, the Danish soldier who died on October 4th was initially wounded in a mortar attack in Al Harthah near Basrah in Basrah Province.

Friday, October 06, 2006 10:37 AM - Ekstra Bladet, a Danish media source, is reporting the name of the Danish soldier who died in Iraq on October 5th: Martin Hjorth, 20, of the Sjælland region in Denmark. Also, the Danish news service TV2 Nyhederne has more information. Roughly translated, this article says that Hjorth died of serious injuries he received in a firefight at Al Hartha near Basra, this according to a statement issued by the Danish Army Command on the morning of October 6th. No other Danish forces were hurt in the incident. Hjorth was a konstabel (private) assigned to the Jydske Dragonregiment (Jutland Dragoon Regiment), one of two Danish cavalry units, based in Holstebro, Denmark. He is the sixth Danish serviceman to die in Iraq.

Martin Hjorth, 20, Sjælland region, Denmark

Saturday, October 07, 2006 5:20 AM -
	(1) MNF-Iraq is reporting the death of an 82nd Airborne Division soldier out of Fort Bragg, NC, due to enemy action near the city of Bayji on October 6th.
	(2) The South Mississippi Sun Herald is reporting the death of Army Staff Sergeant James Ellis, 25, of Yazoo City, Mississippi. According to the article, he was one of the four soldiers who died in an IED blast in Baghdad earlier this week (the article gives the date as Tuesday, the 3rd, but CENTCOM has reported the date as Monday, the 2nd). In this case, the soldier's unit is given: the 7th Squadron, 10th Cavalry Regiment, 4th Infantry Division out of Fort Hood, TX. That means that this particular unit has suffered 8 deaths this past week, including the 4 who died on Wednesday, the 4th.
James D. Ellis, 25, Yazoo City, Mississippi,

Sunday, October 08, 2006 4:33 AM -
	(1) MNF-Iraq is reporting the death of a soldier on October 7th from a small arms fire attack northwest of Baghdad.
	(2) MNF-Iraq is also reporting the death of a 3rd Stryker Brigade Combat Team soldier based out of Fort Lewis, WA. The incident occurred on October 7th and involved an IED. The place of death is not specifically given although the press release was by-lined "Mosul".

Sunday, October 08, 2006 5:32 AM - WSFA-TV out of Montgomery, Alabama, is reporting the death of a local Marine: Brad Payne. Details are sketchy. But the death must have occurred very close to  October 6th as that is the date that his parents were notified (we are putting him into the database on the 6th for now, but will correct this if necessary as more details emerge). The article attributes his death to a roadside bomb. Payne's wife is currently living in North Carolina, a good indication that he was based at Camp Lejeune. (MNF announcement below.)

Brad Payne, 24, Montgomery, Alabama

Sunday, October 08, 2006 11:32 AM - The DoD has released the identities of the four soldiers who died together when an improvised explosive device hit their vehicle just northwest of Baghdad in the vicinity of Taji Air Base on October 2nd:
	Staff Sergeant James D. Ellis, 25, of Valdosta, Georgia (actually the media says he grew up in Yazoo City, Mississippi)
	Specialist Raymond S. Armijo, 22, of Phoenix, Arizona
Santos Raymond Armijo "Bear," 22, Phoenix, Arizona
	Specialist Justin R. Jarrett, 21, of Jonesboro, Georgia
	Specialist Kristofer C. Walker, 20, of Creve Coeur, Illinois

Sunday, October 08, 2006 2:27 PM -
	(1) MNF-Iraq is announcing the deaths of three U.S. Marines from enemy action in the Al Anbar Province on October 6th. Earlier today, we learned of the death of Marine Brad Payne, a death that appeared to have occurred right about the 6th. It seems likely now that Payne was one these three Marine deaths. (Media article and photo above.)
	(2) An Associated Press article would seem to indicate that the death of the 3rd Stryker Brigade soldier on October 7th did indeed occur in the Mosul area.

Monday, October 09, 2006 8:08 AM - The Associated Press is reporting the death of a soldier with the 82nd Airborne Division on Friday, October 6th: Corporal Nicholas Arvanitis, 22, of Salem, New Hampshire. From the sounds of the article, he apparently died from enemy small arms fire, and is likely the death that CENTCOM reported in this release.

Monday, October 9, 2006 10:33 AM - Reuters is reporting that military sources are telling them that three U.S. Marines died from enemy action in Al Anbar Province on Sunday, October 8th. They specifically state in their article that these three deaths are in addition to the three Marines who were killed on Friday, the 6th.

Tuesday, October 10, 2006 7:59 AM -
	(1) CENTCOM is reporting the death of a Task Force Lightning soldier on October 8th from an explosion north of Tikrit.
	(2) CENTCOM is also reporting the death of a U.S. soldier from small arms fire on October 10th in eastern Baghdad.
	(3) The Shreveport Times is announcing the death of a local Marine in an IED attack in Iraq. Lance Corporal John Edward Hale died on Friday, October 6th, in the Al Anbar Province. He is likely one of the three Marines who died that day in one attack.

Tuesday, October 10, 2006 10:40 AM -
	(1) The DoD has officially released the names of the four soldiers who died on October 4th when their unit was attacked with small arms fire and other weapons just northwest of Baghdad in the vicinity of the Taji Air Base:
		Private 1st Class Dean R. Bright, 32, of Roseburg, Oregon
		Specialist Timothy R. Burke, 24, of Hollywood, Florida
		Staff Sergeant Christopher O. Moudry, 31, of Baltimore, Maryland
		Specialist George R. Obourn Jr., 20, of Creve Coeur, Illinois
	(2) The DoD has confirmed the death of Corporal Nicholas A. Arvanitis, 22, of Salem, New Hampshire, on October 6th near Bayji from a small arms fire attack.
	(3) The DoD has identified the soldier who died in Mosul on October 7th from an IED attack on his vehicle: Corporal Carl W. Johnson II, 21, of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

Tuesday, October 10, 2006 11:13 AM - The Richmond Times-Dispatch is reporting the death of a Tazewell, Virginia, native in Iraq on October 7th: Brandon Asbury, 21. The article states that Asbury served with the 4th Infantry Division out of Fort Hood, Texas ... and that he died in Al Anbar Province. This is likely the death "northwest of Baghdad" covered in this CENTCOM release. The boundaries of three provinces ... Baghdad, Salah ad Din and Al Anbar ... come together in that area.

Tuesday, October 10, 2006 3:13 PM - The DoD has announced the death of a soldier in Ramadi from grenade fire on October 8th: Private 1st Class Shane R. Austin, 19, of Edgerton, Kansas. This is apparently a new death, not previously reported by CENTCOM.

Tuesday, October 10, 2006 5:03 PM - The Rustin (Louisiana) Daily Leader is reporting the death of a Summerfield High School graduate in Iraq. The family of 21 year old Lance Corporal Jon Eric Bowman was informed early this morning, October 10th, that he died when his Humvee was hit by an IED. We are guessing at this time that his death date was the 10th, but we will not know for sure until the DoD formally acknowledges his death.

Tuesday, October 10, 2006 5:46 PM - MNF-Iraq has announced the deaths of three more Marines due to enemy action in the Al Anbar Province ... these latest deaths on October 9th. We now believe that Lance Corporal Jon Eric Bowman, whose death was reported a few hours ago in the news media, was one of these Marines. His death date has been changed in our database accordingly.

Tuesday, October 10, 2006 6:48 PM - At this time, we are deleting the death we have had listed on October 1st for which the DoD has issued no name. CENTCOM did issue a legitimate release for it here. But we now believe the release must have been in error. The DoD has seldom waited more than 10 days after a death to release the identity of the victim. Should the DoD provide an identification at some point, we will re-post this death.

Wednesday, October 11, 2006 6:05 AM -
	(1) The Billings Gazette is reporting the death of a young Montana Marine in Iraq on Sunday, October 8th: 20 year old Lance Corporal Jeremy Scott Sandvick Monroe of Darby, Montana. According to his father, he was shot in the head by a sniper and died instantly. His unit is given as "2/3 Echo Company". We suspect that this is shorthand for "2nd Battalion, 3rd Marine Regiment, 3rd Marine Division" out of Kaneohe Bay, Hawaii. That particular unit is assigned to Regimental Combat Team 7, which would make Monroe's death one of the three described in this CENTCOM release.
	(2) The Kansas City Channel website has posted the identities of two Missouri National Guardsmen killed in an IED attack in Iraq on Saturday, October 7th:
		Sergeant Lawrence Parrish of Lebanon, Missouri
		Specialist John Wood of Humboldt, Kansas
		These are new deaths, not previously reported by CENTCOM.

Wednesday, October 11, 2006 6:34 AM - Newsday is reporting the death of Marine Sergeant Julian Arechaga, 23, of Baldwin, New York, in an IED attack in the Al Anbar Province on Sunday, October 8th. He was on his 2nd deployment to Iraq and had only just arrived in country in September with the 1st Battalion of the 6th Marine Regiment, 2nd Marine Division, out of Camp Lejeune, NC.

Wednesday, October 11, 2006 9:37 AM - The Associated Press is reporting the death of a soldier with the 82nd Combat Aviation Brigade out of Fort Bragg, NC: Timothy Fulkerson, 20, from Owensboro, Kentucky. Although the article states that he died on Saturday, October 7th, we believe that the reporter may have been referring to the date stateside. He may very well have died on Sunday, October 8th, Iraq time (which "fits" better with the fact that his family was informed of his death on Monday). The 82nd Combat Aviation Brigade was deployed to Iraq in August and was stationed north of Baghdad in Salah ad Din Province around the cities of Samarra and Tikrit. That would make Fulkerson a good candidate for the death described in this CENTCOM release.

Wednesday, October 11, 2006 11:26 AM - (1) CENTCOM is reporting the death of a soldier from an IED attack in central Baghdad on Wednesday, October 11th.

Wednesday, October 11, 2006 1:00 PM -
	(1) The DoD has confirmed the deaths of two Army National Guardsmen in Iraq on October 7th:
		Missouri National Guard Sergeant Lawrence L. Parrish, 36, of Lebanon, Missouri
		Kansas National Guard Specialist John E. Wood, 37, of Humboldt, Kansas
		According to the release, they died in Baghdad when their vehicle was hit by a roadside bomb.
	(2) The DoD has also confirmed the death of Army Sergeant Brandon S. Asbury, 21, of Tazewell, Virginia, on October 7th. Asbury died in Baghdad in a small arms fire attack.
	(3) Lastly, the DoD has confirmed the death of Army Specialist Timothy A. Fulkerson, 20, of Utica, Kentucky on October 8th. Fulkerson died when his vehicle hit a land mine in the vicinity of Tikrit.

Wednesday, October 11, 2006 2:43 PM - The DoD has released the identity of a soldier who was killed by enemy action in Baghdad on Monday, October 9th: Private 1st Class Phillip B. Williams, 21, of Gardnerville, Nevada. This would appear to be another "new death", not previously announced by CENTCOM. The DoD gave no further information on his cause of death.

Thursday, October 12, 2006 6:02 AM -
	(1) MNF-Iraq is reporting the death of a 3rd Brigade, 25th Infantry Division, soldier from enemy action in the vicinity of Kirkuk on Wednesday, October 11th.
	(2) The Pittsburgh Tribune-Review is reporting the death of Marine Private 1st Class Shelby Feniello, 25, of Connellsville, Pennsylvania, in Iraq. Feniello died on Monday, October 9th, when his vehicle hit a roadside bomb in the vicinity of Ramadi in the Al Anbar Province. Two other Marines died with him in the incident. He was based out of Camp Lejeune, NC.
		Shelby Feniello, 25, Connellsville, Pennsylvania
	(3) A good, detailed article on Army Private 1st Class Phillip Brandon Williams, 21, has appeared in the Nevada Appeal. Williams died in Baghdad on October 9th on his first tour of duty in Iraq after graduating from military police training. According to his uncle, he was manning a gun atop a Humvee, guarding the personnel in an explosives disposal unit searching for roadside bombs, when he was hit by a sniper. He died instantly.
		Phillip Brandon Williams, 21, Gardnerville, Nevada

Thursday, October 12, 2006 10:34 AM -
	(1) The DoD has confirmed the identities of two of the Marines who died from enemy action in Al Anbar Province on October 6th:
		Corporal Bradford H. Payne, 24, of Montgomery, Alabama
		Lance Corporal John E. Hale, 20, of Shreveport, Louisiana
	(2) CENTCOM had originally reported 3 Marine deaths on October 8th in this release. Now, the DoD has issued this release and this release that indicate that there were actually four deaths that day, from three different units:
		From the 2nd Battalion, 3rd Marines, 3rd Marine Division out of Kaneohe Bay, HI:
			Lance Corporal Jeremy S. Sandvick Monroe, 20, of Chinook, Montana
			Lance Corporal Derek W. Jones, 21, of Salem, Oregon
		From the 3rd Battalion, 12th Marines, 3rd Marine Division out of Okinawa, Japan:
			Captain Robert M. Secher, 33, of Germantown, Tennessee
		From the 2nd Battalion, 8th Marines, 2nd Marine Division out of Camp Lejeune, NC:
			Lance Corporal Stephen F. Johnson, 20, of Marietta, Georgia
		We believe that Monroe, Jones and Secher were likely the Regimental Combat Team 7 Marines covered in the above CENTCOM release.
	(3) The DoD has confirmed the names of the three Marines who died from enemy action in Al Anbar Province on October 9th:
		Sergeant Julian M. Arechaga, 23, of Oceanside, New York
		Lance Corporal Jon E. Bowman, 21, of Dubach, Louisiana
		Private 1st Class Shelby J. Feniello, 25, of Connellsville, Pennsylvania

Friday, October 13, 2006 7:48 AM -
	(1) The Cleveland Plain Dealer is reporting the death of an Ohio Marine from injuries he suffered when an IED detonated. Sergeant Justin Walsh, 24, of Cuyahoga Falls, Ohio, was wounded on October 4th, at which point he was airlifted out of Iraq, eventually arriving at the National Navy Medical Center in Bethesda, Maryland. He died there on October 11th.
Justin Walsh, 24, Cuyahoga Falls, Ohio
	(2) The Richmond Times-Dispatch is reporting the death of Captain Shane Adcock of Mechanicsville, Virginia, in Iraq. He died on October 11th when struck by a roadside bomb in the vicinity of Kirkuk.

Friday, October 13, 2006 8:02 AM - CENTCOM is reporting the death of a Task Force Lightning soldier in northern Iraq from an IED explosion on Thursday, October 12th.

Friday, October 13, 2006 5:44 PM -
	(1) The DoD has confirmed the death of Captain Shane T. Adcock, 27, of Mechanicsville, Virginia, in the vicinity of Hawijah (between Bayji and Kirkuk) from grenade fire on Wednesday, October 11th.
	(2) The DoD has also confirmed the death of Sergeant Justin T. Walsh, 24, of Cuyahoga Falls, Ohio. Walsh was wounded on October 5th, and died on Wednesday, October 11th, at the National Naval Medical Center at Bethesda, Maryland.

Saturday, October 14, 2006 1:13 PM - Reuters AlertNet is reporting the death of a U.S. airman killed in action in the Baghdad area on Saturday, October 14th.

Saturday, October 14, 2006 2:20 PM - MNF-Iraq is reporting the death of a U.S. Marine from enemy action in the Al Anbar Province on Saturday, October 14th.

Saturday, October 14, 2006 8:47 PM -
	(1) The DoD has announced the death of Private 1st Class Thomas J. Hewitt, 22, of Temple, Texas, at the Walter Reed Army Medical Center in Washington, D.C. on Friday, October 13th. Hewitt was injured in Baghdad on September 26th when an IED exploded near his vehicle.
	(2) The DoD has also identified the soldier who died in northern Iraq on Thursday, October 12th, when an IED detonated near his vehicle: Sergeant Gene A. Hawkins, 24, of Orlando, Florida. He was killed in the vicinity of Mosul.

Sunday, October 15, 2006 8:24 AM -
	(1) MNF-Iraq is reporting the death of a soldier in an IED attack southwest of Baghdad on Friday, October 13th.
	(2) MNF-Iraq is also reporting the deaths of three soldiers in an IED attack south of Baghdad on Saturday, October 14th.
	(3) The U.S. Air Force official website has a notice that apparently confirms the death of an airman in the Baghdad area on Saturday, October 14th. He was working with Iraqi police as a turret gunner at the time of his death.

Sunday, October 15, 2006 2:47 PM - MNF-Iraq has announced the deaths of two U.S. Marines from enemy action in the Al Anbar Province on Sunday, October 15th.

Monday, October 16, 2006 2:34 AM - MNF-Iraq is reporting the death of a soldier in an improvised explosive device attack north of Baghdad on Sunday, October 15th.

Monday, October 16, 2006 8:01 AM - MNF-Iraq is reporting the deaths of two Task Force Lightning soldiers in the vicinity of Kirkuk from enemy action on Sunday, October 15th.

Monday, October 16, 2006 10:44 AM -
	(1) The DoD has identified the soldier who died in an IED attack in central Baghdad on Wednesday, October 11th: Sergeant Nicholas R. Sowinski, 25, of Tempe, Arizona. He was a member of the 172nd Stryker Brigade Combat Team that had their tour of duty in Iraq unexpectedly extended by 3 months.
	(2) The DoD has also identified the soldier who died in an IED attack southwest of Baghdad on Friday, October 13th: Private 1st Class Kenny F. Stanton Jr., 20, of Hemet, California.
Kenny F. Stanton Jr., 20, Hemet, California

	Monday, October 16, 2006 10:55 AM - The DoD has released the identity of the airman who died in the vicinity of Baghdad from enemy action on Saturday, October 14th: Airman 1st Class Leebenard E. Chavis, 21, of Hampton, Virginia.
Leebenard E. Chavis, 21, Hampton, Virginia

Monday, October 16, 2006 5:38 PM - Back on October 3rd, CENTCOM issued a notice that a "Marine" from Regimental Combat Team 7 had died of wounds received in Al Anbar Province on September 30th. But after 10 days had elapsed, and no identification was forthcoming from the DoD, we considered the notice to be in error and removed that death from our database. Today, however, the DoD has issued a name ... 17 days after the date of death ... a highly unusual occurrence. And they are announcing the death of an Army soldier from RCT-7, not a Marine. Corporal Luis E. Tejeda, 20, died on September 30th from wounds received when a roadside bomb detonated near his vehicle at Hit in Al Anbar Province. His death had previously been written up in Stars & Stripes, and also on the website Marine.mil. The DoD gives his hometown as Huntington Park, California, while the media articles just cited give it as Lynwood, CA. [This entry goes directly into our archived September 2006 database, and increases the total Coalition deaths in September from 75 to 76 (including 71 U.S. deaths).]

Monday, October 16, 2006 6:38 PM -
	(1) The DoD has announced the death of 2nd Lieutenant Johnny K. Craver, 37, of McKinney, Texas, in Baghdad when a roadside bomb exploded near his patrol vehicle on Friday, October 13th. CENTCOM had only previously reported one death on the 13th ... while the DoD had identified a second. This death makes the third that day.
	(2) The DoD has identified the Marine who died from enemy action in Al Anbar Province on Saturday, October 14th: Sergeant Jonathan J. Simpson, 25, of Rockport, Texas.
	(3) The DoD has also identified the two Marines who died from enemy action in Al Anbar Province on Sunday, October 15th. Both were Marine reservists from a unit based in Terre Haute, Indiana:
		Sergeant Brock A. Babb, 40, of Evansville, Indiana Lance Corporal Joshua M. Hines, 26, of Olney, Illinois
Brock A. Babb, 40, Evansville, Indiana
	(4) MNF-Iraq is reporting the deaths of two more Task Force Lightning soldiers on Sunday, October 15th ... these two attached to the 82nd Airborne Division. They died due to enemy action in Salah ad Din Province up north of Baghdad.

Tuesday, October 17, 2006 4:15 AM - The Rochester, New York, Democrat and Chronicle is reporting the death of an area resident in Iraq on Sunday, October 15th: Army Specialist Jonathan Lootens, 25, of Newark, New York. Because the article states that he was assigned to the 25th Infantry Division out of Hawaii [presumably Kaneohe Bay], he is likely one of the two deaths covered in this CENTCOM release. He died when his vehicle hit a roadside bomb.

Tuesday, October 17, 2006 10:59 AM - The DoD has released the identities of the two 25th Infantry Division deaths on Sunday, October 15th:
	1st Lieutenant Joshua Deese, 25, of North Carolina
	Sergeant Jonathan E. Lootens, 25, of Lyons, New York
Both were involved in an IED attack in the vicinity of the city of Kirkuk. Lootens apparently died at the scene, while Deese made it as far as the medical facilities at Balad before passing away.

Tuesday, October 17, 2006 4:33 PM -
	(1) The DoD has released the identities of the three soldiers who died on Saturday, October 14th, south of Baghdad when their vehicle was struck by an improvised explosive device:
		1st Sergeant Charles M. King, 48, of Mobile, Alabama. 1st Sergeant King was the partner of Pulitzer Prize winning reporter Dana Canedy. The pair have a 7 month old son.
Charles M. King, 48, Mobile, Alabama
		Staff Sergeant Joseph M. Kane, 35, of Darby, Pennsylvania
		Specialist Timothy J. Lauer, 25, of Saegertown, Pennsylvania
	Timothy J. Lauer, 25, Saegertown, Pennsylvania
	(2) The DoD is also announcing the death of a soldier in Baghdad on October 14th of a non-combat related injury: Private 1st Class Keith J. Moore, 28, of San Francisco, California. This is a new death, not previously reported by CENTCOM.

Tuesday, October 17, 2006 6:10 PM - The DoD has released the identity of the soldier who died north of Baghdad from an IED attack on Sunday, October 15th: Captain Mark C. Paine, 32, of Rancho Cucamonga, California.

Wednesday, October 18, 2006 4:27 AM - MNF-Iraq is reporting TEN U.S. deaths for Tuesday, October 17th:
	(1) Four Multi-National Division - Baghdad soldiers died west of Baghdad when their vehicle hit an improvised explosive device.
	(2) One Regimental Combat Team 7 Marine died in combat in the Al Anbar Province.