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Army Sgt. Trevor A. Blumberg, 22, of Canton, Mich.; assigned to 1st Battalion, 504th Parachute Infantry Regiment, 82nd Airborne Division, Fort Bragg, N.C.; killed Sept. 14 in Fallujah when two improvised explosive devices struck his vehicle while he was on patrol.

Army Spc. Artimus D. Brassfield, 22, of Flint, Mich.; assigned to B Company, 1st Battalion, 66th Armored Regiment, 4th Infantry Division, Fort Hood, Texas; killed Oct. 24 in an enemy mortar attack in Samaria, Iraq.

Army Capt. Paul J. Cassidy, 36, of Laingsburg, Mich.; assigned to the 432nd Civil Affairs Battalion in Wis.; died July 13 as a result of non-combat injuries at Camp Babylon, Iraq.

Marine Pfc. Juan Guadalupe Garza Jr., 20, of Temperance, Mich.; assigned to 1st Battalion, 4th Marine Regiment, 1st Marine Division, Camp Pendleton, Calif.; killed in action in central Iraq.

Army Spc. Richard A. Goward , 32, of Midland, Mich.; assigned to 1460th Transportation Company, Midland, Mich.; killed when his truck entered a dust cloud and rear-ended the truck in front of him in Iraq.

Army Sergeant First Class Mark Wayne Jackson, 40, of Glennie, Mich.; killed in the Phillipines, October 2, 2003.

Army Staff Sgt. Paul J. Johnson, 29, of Calumet, Mich.; assigned to 1st Battalion, 505th Parachute Infantry Regiment, 82nd Airborne Division, Fort Bragg, N.C.; killed Oct. 20 while on mounted patrol when the vehicle in which he was riding hit an improvised explosive device and then came under small-arms fire by enemy forces in Fallujah, Iraq.

Army Pfc. Jason M. Meyer, 23, of Swartz Creek, Mich.; assigned to B Company, 11th Engineer Battalion, Fort Stewart, Ga.; killed in action in Iraq.

Marine Maj. Kevin Nave, 36, of Union Lake, Mich.; assigned to 3rd Battalion, 5th Marine Regiment, 1st Marine Division, Camp Pendleton, Calif.; killed in a vehicle accident in Iraq.

Army Master Sgt. William L. Payne, 46, of Otsego, Mich.; assigned to 2nd Battalion, 70th Armor Regiment, Fort Riley, Kan.; killed in an accidental ordnance explosion in Haswah, Iraq.

Army Sgt. Michael F. Pedersen, 26, of Flint, Mich.; assigned to 2nd Battalion, 3rd Aviation Regiment, Hunter Army Airfield, Ga.; killed in a UH-60 Black Hawk helicopter crash in central Iraq.

Army Staff Sgt. Brett J. Petriken, 30, of Flint, Mich.; assigned to the 501st Military Police Company, Wiesbaden, Germany; killed in a vehicle accident in Samawah, Iraq, May 26.

Air Force Senior Airman Jason Pelite, 21, of Lansing, Mich.; killed in Afghanistan, March 23, 2003.

Army Sgt. Sean C. Reynolds, 25, of East Lansing, Mich.; assigned to 74th Long-Range Surveillance Detachment 173rd Airborne Brigade, Camp Ederle, Italy; killed in Iraq when his M-4 rifle accidentally discharged after he fell off a ladder he had been climbing.

Army Sgt. Todd J. Robbins, 33, of Pentwater, Mich.; assigned to the C Battery, 3rd Battalion, 13th Field Artillery Regiment (Multiple Launch Rocket System), Fort Sill, Okla.; killed in action in Iraq.

Air Force Staff Sgt. Scott D. Sather, 29, of Clio, Mich.; assigned to 24th Special Tactics Squadron, Pope Air Force Base, N.C.; killed in action in Iraq.

Army Staff Sgt. Mark D. Vasquez, 35, of Port Huron, Mich.; assigned to 1st Battalion, 16th Infantry Regiment, 1st Infantry Division, based in Fort Riley, Kan.; killed in action while riding in a Bradley Fighting Vehicle that was struck by an improvised explosive device on Nov. 8 in Fallujah, Iraq.

Army Spc. Donald L. Wheeler, 22 of Concord, Mich.; assigned to A Company, 1st Battalion, 22nd Infantry Regiment, 4th Infantry Division, Fort Hood, Texas; killed Oct. 13 when his unit came under attack from a rocket-propelled grenade while searching for an improvised explosive device in Tikrit, Iraq.