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This website is dedicated to the Coalition servicemen and women who have lost their lives during the War in Iraq started on March 19, 2003. When our soldiers fall on the field of battle, they earn the right to live forever. Latest Stories: Missing In Action-Prisoner Of War-Duty Status Whereabouts Unknown | |
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Friday, December 15 2006 @ 07:48 AM MST
Contributed by: tomw
Views: 16,329
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 This will remain as a featured article at the top of the front page in remembrance to Ahmed, who is still missing in Iraq. As a fellow soldier, we leave no one behind.
 Army Times -- An American soldier missing in Iraq since late October probably was captured by the enemy, the Pentagon said Thursday, making official what the U.S. military there has suggested for more than a month.
Ahmed K. Altaie, a 41-year-old Iraqi-born resident of Ann Arbor, Mich., was snatched off the street while he was visiting his Iraqi wife in Baghdad on Oct. 23.  
U.S. forces have conducted raids in portions of Sadr City searching for Altaie, who worked as a translator. The U.S. government has offered a $50,000 reward for information leading to his recovery.
He initially was listed as “whereabouts unknown,” but the military generally reviews such cases to rule out all other possibilities, including being absent without leave. He is now considered “missing-captured.”
In Altaie’s case, the Mahdi Army is believed to have grabbed him, as well as dozens of people during a raid on a Ministry of Higher Education office in Baghdad on Nov. 14. The ministry is predominantly Sunni Arab. |
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Monday, September 05 2011 @ 01:25 PM MDT
Contributed by: James Van Thach
Views: 567
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 The Post-Standard (Syracuse, NY) - Tu-Anh Pham, 42, worked at the World Trade Center for Fred Alger Management and she was killed on September 11,
2001.
Tu Anh Pham was about to start her second day at work after
maternity leave. She looked in the mirror and scowled at her figure.
She stood 4-foot-11 and weighed 105 pounds, but she had a fury big
enough for two of her size. She reached into her closet, trying on dress
after dress, before throwing them at her husband, Tom Knobel
(ka-NOBLE). Despite her size, she still thought that she looked out of
shape. In the end, fuming, she got on a train bound for the World Trade Center.
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Thursday, June 23 2011 @ 12:15 PM MDT
Contributed by: James Van Thach
Views: 761
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New York City, NY -- As Memorial Day approaches and we thank our Veterans for their service to our nation as well as appreciate the contributions that U.S. Asian Pacific Americans have made to our country for the month of May, Tommy Nero Sullivan of V.I.P. Promotions was privileged to interview Captain James Van Thach about the United States Army awarding him the Bronze Star for his service in Iraq as a Military Advisor.
Photo: Iraqi Army Staff Major Mohammed presenting the Bronze Star Medal to Captain James Van Thach and Iraqi Army Major Ihsan is standing to the right. |
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Friday, February 18 2011 @ 07:39 AM MST
Contributed by: James Van Thach
Views: 1,193
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A U.S. Army Major Reflects on Time Spent Living, Sleeping and Training with Iraqi Soldiers
ABC News (by: Mike Gudgell) - "I'd take a bullet for them and I know they'd take a bullet for me,"
says U.S. Army Maj. Alvaro Roa. He calls them "my guys" and takes pride
that they are the best in the brigade. It's obvious there's a
friendship -- the type forged in combat -- between Roa and his men, the
soldiers of the Babylon battalion of the Iraqi 6th Army. 
Photo: Captain James Van Thach and Major Alvaro Roa
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get about 50 man kisses a day," Roa says, referring to the traditional
Iraqi greeting, "and it doesn't bother me at all." Roa is the chief
of one of more than 400 transition teams -- American soldiers that
live, work and fight with Iraqi security forces.
It's not
uncommon to hear soldiers talk about their Iraqi colleagues with
contempt, but the talk from those who know them best, the transition
teams, is more often full of praise and admiration. "I'm
extremely impressed with the Iraqi soldier," shouts Sgt. Dusty Hunt,
over the crackle of gunfire on an Iraqi firing range, "from working
without equipment to the training they have … to keep going out on
missions over and over, you can't say enough about them."
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Friday, November 19 2010 @ 07:24 AM MST
Contributed by: James Van Thach
Views: 1,726
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New York City, NY -- Over the past few years I have had the privilege of interviewing
Vietnamese-American United States Army Captain James Van Thach, a Law
School graduate from Touro Law Center. He had the option to be admitted
to a state bar and apply to join the Judge Advocate General Corp (JAG)
as an Attorney in the U.S. Army but chose to become an Infantry officer
and volunteered to serve in Iraq as a Military Advisor to the Iraqi
Army. His actions led to him being wounded twice during his first year,
but he decided to remain in Iraq for an additional year, on modified
duty.
Photo: General David Petraeus & Captain James Van Thach
He was reassigned to Iraq Assistance Group (IAG) J-4 and was
appointed as the Officer in Charge (OIC) of Supply and Services. He
worked on projects that improved the capabilities of Military Advisors
in order for them to assist in accelerating the transition of security
to the Iraqi Security Forces (ISF). |
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Sunday, August 22 2010 @ 03:05 AM MDT
Contributed by: James Van Thach
Views: 2,262
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Seventeen-year-old Jeffrey Nguyen of Swatara Twp. received an
appointment to the U.S. Naval Academy in Annapolis, Md., early this
month.
Since his father, Hung T. Nguyen, had once been a student in the
South Vietnamese equivalent of the naval academy, it seemed to ring with
family history. But the elder Nguyen says his son's accomplishment is
greater.
Photo: Central Dauphin East senior Jeff Nguyen, 17, left,
has been admitted to the United States Naval Academy. His father, Hung
Nguyen, attended the South Vietnam naval academy before North Vietnam
took over and he had to flee the country.
Hung Nguyen's service to his country came during the Vietnam War,
before the fall of Saigon and his eventual emigration to the United
States. At the time, military service in South Vietnam was mandatory for
men of his age.
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Thursday, February 25 2010 @ 05:35 PM MST
Contributed by: James Van Thach
Views: 4,320
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 CAMP MURRAY, Wash. - A Washington National Guardsman from Tacoma died
Thursday from injuries suffered while deployed in Iraq, officials said.
Sgt.
William C. Spencer, 40, of Tacoma was serving with the Mississippi
National Guard when he sustained an injury while supporting combat
operations at Combat Outpost in Marez, Iraq, Army officials said.
Spencer was evacuated to Landstuhl Regional Medical Center in Germany, where he later died.
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Tuesday, February 23 2010 @ 03:28 AM MST
Contributed by: James Van Thach
Views: 2,160
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DoD -- Cpl. Daniel T. O’Leary, 23, of Youngsville, N.C.; assigned to the 307th Brigade Support
Battalion, 1st Brigade Combat Team, 82nd Airborne Division, Fort Bragg,
N.C.; died Feb. 23 in Fallujah, Iraq, of injuries sustained during a
vehicle rollover.
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Sunday, February 21 2010 @ 05:22 PM MST
Contributed by: James Van Thach
Views: 5,020
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| WBIR --A graduate of South-Doyle High School has died in Iraq.
Tennessee's Adjutant General Major General Max Haston confirms that
two Tennessee Army National Guard pilots were killed Sunday in a
helicopter accident in Iraq. 
Captain Marcus Ray Alford, of Knoxville, and Chief Warrant Officer Two
Billie Jean Grinder, of Gallatin, were killed when their OH-58D Kiowa
Warrior made a "hard landing" near Qayyarah Airfield West (Q-West)
about 30 miles south of Mosul in Northern Iraq. |
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Sunday, February 21 2010 @ 05:16 PM MST
Contributed by: James Van Thach
Views: 6,903
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The Tennessean -- Tennessee Army National Guard pilot Billie Jean
Grinder, of Gallatin, was killed Sunday when her OH-58 Kiowa Warrior
helicopter made a “hard landing” in northern Iraq, officials confirmed
Tuesday. 
Grinder’s co-pilot, Capt. Marcus Ray Alford of
Knoxville, also died in the crash, which took place near Qayyarah
Airfield West about 30 miles south of Mosul in northern Iraq. Grinder
and Alford both were members of Troop C 1/230th Air Cavalry, which is
based in Louisville, Tenn. in Blount County and was once part of the
278th Armored Cavalry Regiment. |
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At least 4676 Coalition forces have been killed in Operation Iraqi Freedom.
4356 from US , 180 from UK , 32 from Italy , 23 from Poland , 18 from Ukraine , 13 from Bulgaria , 11 from Spain , 7 from Denmark , 5 from El Salvador , 5 from Georgia , 4 from Slovakia , 3 from Romania , 3 from Latvia , 2 from Estonia , 2 from Netherlands , 2 from Thailand , 2 from Australia , 1 from Fiji , 1 from Canada , 1 from South Korea , 1 from Czech Republic , 1 from Hungary , 1 from Kazakhistan , 1 from Azerbaijan , 1 from USA .
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