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06/21/09 :
DoD Identifies Navy Casualty
Command Master Chief Jeffrey J. Garber, 43, of Hemingford, Neb. died of non-hostile causes June 20 aboard the USS Dwight D. Eisenhower in the North Arabian Sea.

06/21/09 :
DoD Identifies Army Casualty
Staff Sgt. Joshua A. Melton, 26, of Carlyle, IL. He was an Illinois Army National Guardsman assigned to the 2nd Battalion, 130th Infantry, Marion, Illinois... died Kandahar, Afghanistan of wounds sustained when their vehicle was hit by an IED.

06/21/09 :
DoD Identifies Army Casualty
Sgt. Paul G. Smith, 43, of Peoria, IL. He was an Illinois Army National Guardsman assigned to the 2nd Squadron, 106th Cavalry, Aurora, IL... died Kandahar, Afghanistan of wounds sustained when their vehicle was hit by an improvised explosive device.

Three names have not been released yet.