Our Fallen
1/3/10
SrA Bradley Smith, along with three other servicemembers, was killed during a complex ambush. After a roadside bomb detonated near a platoon he was serving with, the 26 year-old Airman volunteered to accompany the platoon medic to help treat and retrieve the wounded servicemembers. A second bomb detonated, claiming his life. Among the injured was Senior Airman Mike Malarsie, a TACP who was serving alongside Airman Smith.
4/25/03
A1C Raymond Losano was in the 14th ASOS from Fort Bragg, N.C., and deployed to Afghanistan with the 82nd Airborne in March 2003. Airman Losano’s unit was ambushed April 25, 2003. He was one of two servicemembers mortally wounded in the attack. Before Airman Losano took his last breath, he called in the air strike that saved the rest of his company.
3/29/03
SSgt Jacob Frazier was assigned to the 169th Air Support Operations Squadron of the Illinois Air National Guard in Peoria, and served as the tactical controller for a 12-person special forces team calling in air strikes on enemy locations. He deployed to Afghanistan in January 2003 and was part of a unit searching for suspected al-Qaida members. While returning from a mission March 29, 2003, his convoy was ambushed, and Sergeant Frazier and another person were killed.