NEVADA DEATHS IN WAR ON TERROR

Sixty-one U.S. military personnel with ties to Nevada have died in the nation's wars overseas since the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon. The soldiers, Marines, sailor and airmen are the following:

• Army Spc. Jason A. Disney, Fallon, Feb. 13, 2002, Afghanistan.

• Army Staff Sgt. Kerry W. Frith, Las Vegas, Feb. 21, 2002, Philippines.

• Army Cpl. Matthew A. Commons, Boulder City, March 4, 2002, Afghanistan.

• Army Chief Warrant Officer John D. Smith, Las Vegas, Feb. 24, 2003, Kuwait.

• Marine Lance Cpl. Donald J. Cline Jr., Sparks, March 23, 2003, Iraq.

• Marine 1st Lt. Frederick E. Pokorney Jr., Tonopah, March 23, 2003, Iraq.

• Marine Lance Cpl. Michael Williams, Reno, March 23, 2003, Iraq.

• Army Capt. Josh Byers, Sparks, July 23, 2003, Iraq.

• Army Reserve Staff Sgt. Cameron B. Sarno, Las Vegas, Sept. 1, 2003, Kuwait.

• Army Staff Sgt. Raymond E. Jones Jr., Carson City, April 9, 2004, Iraq.

• Army Spc. James L. Beckstrand, Reno, April 29, 2004, Iraq.

• Marine Cpl. William I. Salazar, Las Vegas, Oct. 15, 2004, Iraq.

• Air Force Airman 1st Class Jesse M. Samek, Nellis Air Force Base, Oct. 21, 2004, Afghanistan.

• Marine Pfc. John Lukac, Las Vegas, Oct. 30, 2004, Iraq.

• Marine Lance Cpl. Nicholas H. Anderson, Las Vegas, Nov. 12, 2004, Iraq.

• Army Pfc. Daniel F. Guastaferro, Las Vegas, Jan. 7, 2005, Iraq.

• Marine Reserve Cpl. Christopher L. Weaver, Las Vegas, Jan. 26, 2005, Iraq.

• Marine Reserve Lance Cpl. Richard Perez Jr., Las Vegas, Feb. 10, 2005, Iraq.

• Army Staff Sgt. Donald Griffith Jr., Las Vegas, March 11, 2005, Iraq.

• Army Sgt. Eric W. Morris, Sparks, April 28, 2005, Iraq.

• Army Cpl. Stanley J. Lapinski, Las Vegas, June 11, 2005, Iraq.

• Marine Cpl. Jesse Jaime, Henderson, June 15, 2005, Iraq.

• Army National Guard Spc. Anthony S. Cometa, Las Vegas, June 16, 2005, Kuwait.

• Navy Petty Officer 2nd Class Shane Patton, Boulder City, June 28, 2005, Afghanistan.

• Marine 2nd Lt. James J. Cathey, Reno, Aug. 21, 2005, Iraq.

• Army Cpl. Joseph L. Martinez, Las Vegas, Aug. 27, 2005, Iraq.

• Army National Guard Chief Warrant Officer-3 John M. Flynn, Sparks, Sept. 25, 2005, Afghanistan.

• Army National Guard Sgt. Patrick D. Stewart, Fernley, Sept. 25, 2005, Afghanistan.

• Marine Reserve Cpl. Seamus M. Davey, Reno, Oct. 21, 2005, Iraq.

• Army Pfc. Thomas C. Siekert, Lovelock, Dec. 6, 2005, Iraq.

• Army Pvt. Joshua M. Morberg, Sparks, Dec. 27, 2005, Iraq.

• Army Sgt. Gordon F. Misner II, Sparks, Feb. 22, 2006, Iraq.

• Army National Guard Capt. Clayton L. Adamkavicius, Las Vegas, April 21, 2006, Afghanistan.

• Army Cpl. Shawn T. Lasswell Jr., Reno, April 23, 2006, Iraq.

• Army Reserve 1st Sgt. Carlos N. Saenz, Las Vegas, May 5, 2006, Iraq.

• Army Reserve Spc. Teodoro Torres, Las Vegas, May 5, 2006, Iraq.

• Army Sgt. John C. Griffith, Las Vegas, May 5, 2006, Afghanistan.

• Army Staff Sgt. Emmanuel L. Legaspi, Las Vegas, May 7, 2006, Iraq.

• Army Pfc. David N. Crombie, Winnemucca, June 7, 2006, Iraq.

• Army Sgt. Robert P. Kassin, Las Vegas, July 16, 2006, Afghanistan.

• Army Spc. Ignacio Ramirez, Henderson, Aug. 9, 2006, Iraq.

• Marine Lance Cpl. Jeremy Z. Long, Sun Valley, Aug. 10, 2006, Iraq.

• Army Pfc. Phillip B. Williams, Gardnerville, Oct. 9, 2006, Iraq.

• Army Sgt. Kenneth E. Bostic, Hawthorne, Oct. 30, 2006, Iraq.

• Air Force Capt. Kermit O. Evans, Las Vegas, Dec. 3, 2006, Iraq.

• Army Pfc. Roger A. Suarez-Gonzalez, Carson City, Dec. 4, 2006, Iraq.

• Marine 1st Lt. Nathan M. Krissoff, Reno, Dec. 9, 2006, Iraq.

• Marine Lance Cpl. Budd M. Cote, Las Vegas, Dec. 11, 2006, Iraq.

• Marine Lance Cpl. Raul S. Bravo, Elko, March 3, 2007, Iraq.

• Army Reserve Staff Sgt. Coby G. Schwab, Henderson, May 3, 2007, Iraq.

• Army Sgt. Anthony J. Schober, Reno, May 12, 2007, Iraq.

• Army Pfc. Alejandro R. Varela, Fernley, May 19, 2007, Iraq.

• Army Chief Warrant Officer-2 Joshua R. Rodgers, Carson City, May 30, 2007, Afghanistan.

• Army Pfc. Joshua S. Modgling, Las Vegas, June 19, 2007, Iraq.

• Army Spc. Travis M. Virgadamo, Las Vegas, Aug. 30, 2007, Iraq.

• Army Staff Sgt. Michael L. Townes, Las Vegas, Sept. 16, 2007, Iraq.

• Army Sgt. Alfred G. Paredez Jr., Las Vegas, Nov. 20, 2007, Iraq.

• Army Sgt. David J. Drakulich, Reno, Jan. 9, 2008, Afghanistan.

• Army Staff Sgt. Sean M. Gaul, Reno, Jan. 9, 2008, Iraq.

• Army Pfc. Willington M. Rhoads, Las Vegas, July 16, 2008, Afghanistan.

• Army Chief Warrant Officer Christian P. Humphreys, Fallon, Nov. 15, 2008, Iraq.

Fifty-two from the list were Nevada residents or home-based in Nevada at the time they died.

Marine Lance Cpl. Michael Williams was born in Reno but resided in Phoenix. Jones was born in Carson City but lived in Gainesville, Fla., and Beckstrand was born in Reno but lived in Escondido, Calif.

Staff Sgt. Donald Griffith was a 1994 Rancho High School graduate whose family moved to Mechanicsville, Iowa, after having lived in the Las Vegas Valley for 14 years.

Davey's hometown is Lowville, N.Y., but he lived in San Diego while serving with the Marine Forces Reserve near Reno.

Adamkavicius served in the Nevada Army National Guard from April 1993 to March 1999, assigned to 1st Squadron, 221st Cavalry.

He was a resident of Fairdale, Ky., assigned to the Kentucky National Guard when he was killed by enemy small-arms fire in Afghanistan.

Evans, a former airman at Nellis Air Force Base, was assigned to the 27th Civil Engineer Squadron at Cannon Air Force Base, N.M., at the time the CH-46 helicopter he was riding in went down in a lake in Iraq's Anbar province.

While overseas, his wife and son were living in Las Vegas.

Suarez-Gonzalez attended middle school and high school in Carson City before joining the Army and listing his residence as Miami.

Cote's residence was Marana, Ariz., but he spent most of his childhood in Las Vegas before his family moved to the Tucson, Ariz., area when he was 14 years old.

Schwab's residence was Puyallup, Wash., but he lived most of his life in Henderson.