Alexis V. Maldonado, 20, of Wichita Falls, died Saturday. 21 at Kandahar Air Field, Afghanistan of wounds he received in an insurgent attack on his unit in Zhari province, Afghanistan. Maldonado was assigned to the 510th Clearance Company, 20th Engineer Battalion, 36th Engineer Brigade, Fort Hood. A Fort Hood statement says Maldonado had been in […]
Yoseph Robinon ,34, of Brooklyn, NY, by way of Jamaica was an up and coming hip hop star and then drastically changed his life and became an orthodox Jew. Robinson lived an interesting life to say the least. Robinson was gunned down Thursday night when he tried to protect his girlfriend, who was being robbed of her […]
Lance Cpl. Kevin Oratowski, 23, from Wheaton,IL, was serving in his first combat deployment was killed by a blast in southwest Afghanistan. Oratowski died Wednesday when he was caught in an explosion by an explosive device. Oratowski graduated from Glenbard South High School, Oratowski’s family last spoke with him nearly two weeks ago. He planned to return to Wheaton for […]
VIA NJ.COM Jamal M. Rhett, 24, of Palmyra, N.J., was killed in action Sunday when a grenade attack hit his vehicle. Rhett was a combat medic who aspired to be a doctor. He enlisted in the Army after one year of college because he wanted help paying for college and medical school, said his aunt, […]
VIA MY FOX DETROIT He was an accomplished athlete with a promising future, but a gunshot ended it all. A young man was killed while leaving a club in Detroit; gunned down over a pair of glasses. Detroit Police say whether they are real or just knock-offs, you can loose your life over Cartier shades. ‘That […]
Cpl. Kristopher D. Greer, 25, of Ashland City, Tenn., died Aug. 8. The incident occurred in Helmand province. The Defense Department announced his death Friday evening. Greer was a member of 4th Combat Engineering Battalion, based in Knoxville, Tenn. Before he was activated and deployed, Greer worked as a firefighter and EMT in Ashland, Tenn. […]
VIA L.A. TIMES Sgt. Jose L. Saenz III, from San Antonio, TX, died Monday while on foot patrol, Saenz was described as a young man who loved to play football, fish, and go to every Spurs game he could. Saenz’s mother told the local papers that; ‘I feel like it’s still a dream, and I […]
A young solider born and raised in San Antonio was killed over the weekend while serving on his first tour of duty in Afghanistan. While family members mourn the soldiers death, they are still wondering how he died. They say 19-year-old John Andrade left for Afghanistan in June. His father says he was killed sometime over […]
VIA UNION LEADER The Plymouth, New Hampshire area is all too familiar with the heartache felt when a community loses one of its young people to war. That heartache was felt again this week when Master Sgt. Jared N. Van Aalst, 34, of the U.S. Army Special Operations, was killed Wednesday during a combat operation […]
Sergeant Kyle B. Stout, 25, died July 30 when an improvised explosive device went off near a security patrol in Kandahar Province. Stout was a cannon crewmember (artilleryman) assigned to Headquarters. Battery, 1st Battalion, 320th Field Artillery Regiment, 2nd Brigade Combat Team.Stout entered the Army in July 2006 and arrived at Fort Campbell in November 2006.Stout […]
Nicki Minaj is ready to take the world by storm. The Young Money starlet announced the name of her upcoming album, which drops this November, on her U-stream channel. Nicki has been going hard on U-stream and Twitter lately. With Twitter, Nicki even hit the 1 million follower mark on the social media giant. So […]
Torney Watts is the latest casualty on the war against violence, the 20 year father to be, was shot and killed t a nightclub in Detroit on Saturday night. Torney leaves behind his daughter, wife and unborn child. Police are still investigating, Torney was at a downtown Detroit Club, the incident happened near Club Vondies […]
