Military deaths

The Defense Department last week identified the following American military personnel killed in Afghanistan and Iraq, or who died of their injuries at a U.S. military hospital:

Michael A. Bock, 26, of Leesburg, Fla.; staff sergeant, Marine Corps. Bock was killed Aug. 13 when his unit was attacked with small-arms fire while he was on foot patrol in southern Afghanistan’s Helmand province, on the Pakistani border. He was assigned to the 3rd Combat Engineer Battalion, 1st Marine Division, 1st Marine Expeditionary Force at the Marine Corps Air Ground Combat Center in Twentynine Palms, Calif.

Christopher J. Boyd, 22, of Palatine, Ill.; corporal, Marine Corps. Boyd was killed by an improvised explosive device Thursday while he was on foot patrol in southern Afghanistan’s Helmand province, on the Pakistani border. He was assigned to the 2nd Battalion, 4th Marine Regiment, 1st Marine Division, 1st Marine Expeditionary Force at Camp Pendleton.

Cody S. Childers, 19, of Chesapeake, Va.; lance corporal, Marine Corps. Childers was killed Friday while supporting combat operations in southern Afghanistan’s Helmand province, on the Pakistani border. He was assigned to the 2nd Battalion, 6th Marine Regiment, 2nd Marine Division, 2nd Marine Expeditionary Force at Camp Lejeune, N.C.

Benjamen G. Chisholm, 24, of Fort Worth; private first class, Army. Chisholm was one of two soldiers killed Tuesday when an improvised explosive device caused their military vehicle to overturn in eastern Afghanistan’s Kunar province, on the Pakistani border. He was assigned to the 1st Battalion, 327th Infantry Regiment, 1st Brigade Combat Team, 101st Airborne Division (Air Assault) at Ft. Campbell, Ky.

Derek J. Farley, 24, of Nassau, N.Y.; staff sergeant, Army. Farley was killed Tuesday while attempting to disarm a roadside bomb in Bala Boluk in western Afghanistan’s Farah province, on the Iranian border. He was assigned to the 18th Combat Sustainment Support Battalion, 16th Sustainment Brigade, 21st Theater Sustainment Command in Grafenwoehr, Germany.

Charles M. High IV, 21, of Albuquerque; private, Army. High was one of two soldiers killed Tuesday when an improvised explosive device caused their military vehicle to overturn in eastern Afghanistan’s Kunar province, on the Pakistani border. He was assigned to the 1st Battalion, 327th Infantry Regiment, 1st Brigade Combat Team, 101st Airborne Division (Air Assault) at Ft. Campbell, Ky.

Martin A. Lugo, 24, of Tucson; sergeant, Army. Lugo was killed Thursday in a firefight with the Taliban in Puli Alam in central Afghanistan’s Logar province, south of Kabul. He was assigned to the 1st Battalion, 75th Ranger Regiment at Hunter Army Air Field, Ga.

Kevin E. Oratowski, 23, of Wheaton, Ill.; lance corporal, Marine Corps. Oratowski was killed Wednesday when his vehicle struck a roadside bomb in southern Afghanistan’s Helmand province, on the Pakistani border. He was assigned to the 1st Light Armored Reconnaissance Battalion, 1st Marine Division, 1st Marine Expeditionary Force at Camp Pendleton.

Jamal M. Rhett, 24, of Palmyra, N.J.; specialist, Army. Rhett was killed Aug. 15 in a grenade attack on his Stryker vehicle in Baqubah, Iraq, northeast of Baghdad. He was assigned to the 1st Battalion, 21st Infantry Regiment, 2nd Brigade Combat Team, 25th Infantry Division at Schofield Barracks, Hawaii.

Edgar N. Roberts, 39, of Hinesville, Ga.; sergeant first class, Army National Guard. Roberts died Tuesday at the National Naval Medical Center in Bethesda, Md., of injuries suffered June 26 when his vehicle struck a roadside bomb in Sayed Abad in central Afghanistan’s Wardak province, west of Kabul. He was assigned to the 810th Engineer Company in Swainsboro, Ga.

Collin Thomas, 33, of Morehead, Ky.; chief petty officer, Navy. Thomas was fatally shot Wednesday during a combat operation in eastern Afghanistan. He was assigned to a SEAL team based at Joint Expeditionary Base Little Creek in Virginia Beach, Va.

Sources: Department of Defense, Times staff reports and the Associated Press