SSGT David G. Bellavia

Nov 18, 2019 | Army

Staff Sgt. David G. Bellavia was born, Nov. 10, 1975, in Buffalo, New York. The son of a successful dentist and the youngest of four boys, Bellavia grew up in western New York and attended Lyndonville Central High School and Houghton Academy. Following his high school...

SPC Michael Travis Osorio

Sep 17, 2019 | Army

“SPC Michael Travis Osorio, 20 of Horseshoe Bend, Idaho passed away on April 23, 2019 in Iraq serving his country. Michael was born to David and Jennifer Osorio on November 21, 1998. He attended grade school in Salt Lake City, Utah and finished his schooling in...

SSG Jack M. Martin III

Aug 8, 2019 | Army

Jack M. Martin III dreamed of working as an educator or finding another way to help people when his time in the military ended, his family said. The 26-year-old from Bethany, Okla., was helping to resupply a school construction project in the Philippines when he was...

MAJ Stephen V. Long

May 29, 2019 | Army

Specialist [at that time] Stephen Long, Alpha Company, 2nd Ranger Battalion survived nearly dying in a combat air assault on the island of Grenada that saw three of eight helicopters in the first wave crash. Major Stephen Long was one of the one hundred and...

SFC Merideth L. Howard

Apr 17, 2019 | Army, Fire

U.S. Army Sgt 1st Class Merideth L. Howard was killed September 8, 2006 in Kabul, Afghanistan when a vehicle-borne improvised explosive device detonated near her Humvee. Howard was assigned to the 364th Civil Affairs Brigade in support of the 10th Mountain Division at...