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A British Royal Army sergeant killed in Afghanistan was remembered at a funeral Tuesday in the same chapel where he married four months ago. About 700 people packed the Guards Chapel in London for the service for Regimental Sgt.-Maj...Chant, 40, the most...
Tags: sergeant major, British Royal Army, United Kingdom, London, Infantry, Military ranks of Singapore, Sergeant, Coldstream Guards, Military ranks of Australia, War in Afghanistan, Warrant Officer, Grenadier, Human Interest
The Defense Department has confirmed that an Idaho soldier was killed in a helicopter crash near the Iraqi city of Tikrit. The soldier was identified Tuesday as 29-year-old Army Chief Warrant Officer Mathew C...Military officials say Heffelfinger was...
Tags: Iraqi, Army, helicopter crashed, Earl Scott III, Tikrit, Mathew C. Heffelfinger, warrant officer, chief warrant
The four special-operations soldiers who died in a helicopter crash near Leadville on Wednesday had served on dozens of missions in Iraq and elsewhere. Officials at Fort Campbell, Ky., where the soldiers were stationed, Friday identified the four, who...
Tags: helicopter crash, Terrance Geer, soldiers killing, army ids, Army Warrant, The Army, Colorado, warrant officer
Hundreds of people have turned out to pay their respects to four soldiers killed in Afghanistan as their bodies were returned to British soil. Rifleman Aminiasi Toge, 26, Corporal Joseph Etchells, 22, Captain Daniel Shepherd, 28 and Guardsman Christopher...
Tags: Afghanistan, Sean Upton Warrant, warrant officer, Helmand Province, officer class, separate incidents, soldiers killed
News Now reported that Blane Hepfner was the other soldier killed in the crash. A relative confirmed that the Hubbard High graduate had died. According to Local News 8, Millward was the youngest of eight children. He had more siblings from his mother's...
Tags: Army Garrison Hawaii, Wheeler Army Airfield, Stanley Blane Hepfner, Army Combat Readiness Center, helicopter crashed, warrant officer, chief warrant, Idaho, Jonathan Bryce Millward
A parachutist and former Skyhawk with the Canadian Forces died Sunday after a vehicle collision in Cold Lake, Alta. Warrant Officer Michael Hamilton, 46, of Trenton, Ont., was involved in a two-vehicle collision Friday night and died in an Edmonton hospital...
Tags: Michael Hamilton, Edmonton Sun, vehicle collision, Alta, officer michael, warrant officer, Canadian Forces Base Trenton
Chief Warrant Officer Joshua Tillery was among four helicopter pilots killed in the crash of two OH-58D Kiowa Warrior helicopters out of Fort Drum, N.Y. Tillery was a pilot with the 6th Squadron, 6th Cavalry Regiment, 10th Combat Aviation Brigade, 10th...
Tags: Beaverton, Iraq, warrant officer, chief warrant, Joshua Tillery, iraq crash, pilot killed, Joshua M. Tillery, helicopter pilot
Private Michael Freeman, 28, of Peterborough, Ont., died Friday when his armoured vehicle struck an explosive device during a security patrol in Zhari district. Sergeant Gregory Kruse and Warrant Officer Gaetan Roberge were killed mere hours before Pte.
Tags: fallen soldiers, Afghanistan, Ontario, Canada, soldiers killed, Canadian Forces Base Trenton, Gaetan Roberge, warrant officer
An Afghan interpreter and a member of the Afghan National Police also died in the blast. Four more Canadians and two Afghans were injured. On Sunday, both men were remembered as dedicated, professional soldiers who loved their jobs. Roberge, a member...
Tags: Afghanistan, WO Roberge, Jill Kruse, Ont, Gaétan Roberge, Gaetan Roberge, warrant officer
Iraq and finally coming home, Australian troops were left tantalisingly close and frustrated after a bird strike forced their plane to return to Darwin. The 130 Brisbane-based troops were only hours away from rejoining their families after a six-month...
Tags: Iraq, Darwin, Australian Associated Press, Graham McBean, 7th brigade, warrant officer