Listing of Vermonters killed in Iraq War

By The Associated Press
August 23, 2005

Sixteen American servicemen with ties to Vermont have died in Iraq since the war began. A 17th Vermonter died of natural causes in Kuwait while training to go to Iraq:

Army Chief Warrant Officer Erik A. Halvorsen, 40, of Bennington died April 2, 2003 when the helicopter he was in crashed near Karbala;

-- Marine Cpl. Mark Evnin, 21, South Burlington, died April 3, 2003 after a fire fight near Kut;

-- Army Sgt. Justin Garvey, 23, who graduated from Proctor High School, was killed July 20, 2003, when the convoy he was in was attacked near Tal Afar;

-- Army Pvt. Kyle Gilbert, 20, of Brattleboro was killed Aug. 6, 2003 in fighting in Baghdad;

-- Army Capt. Pierre Piche, 29, of Starksboro, died Nov. 15, 2003 when the helicopter he was in went down in Mosul;

-- Spc. Solomon C. Bangayan, 24, of Jay, died Jan. 15, 2004 after his convoy was ambushed in Baghdad;

-- Sgt. William Normandy, 42, of East Barre, died March 15 of natural causes while training in the Kuwait desert;

-- Spc. Christopher D. Gelineau, 23, who graduated from Mount Abraham Union High School in Bristol, died April 20 after the convoy he was in was ambushed in Mosul;

-- Spc. Alan Bean Jr., 22, of Bridport died May 25 during a mortar attack about 25 miles south of Baghdad;

-- Sgt. Kevin Sheehan, 36, of Milton died May 25 in the same attack that killed Alan Bean Jr.

-- Sgt. Jamie Gray, 29, of East Montpelier died June 7 when a bomb exploded south of Baghdad;

-- Marine Lt. Col. David Greene, 39, of Shelburne died July 29 when the helicopter he was piloting was hit by ground fire in Anbar Province;

-- Staff Sgt. Michael Voss, 35, of Carthage, N.C., was killed Oct. 8 when a roadside bomb exploded in a convoy he was leading back to base near Kirkuk. He was a native of Enosburg;

-- Lance Cpl. Jeffery S. Holmes, 20, of Hartford, was killed on Thanksgiving Day while conducting house-clearing operations in Fallujah;

-- Sgt. Jesse Strong, 24, of Albany, was one of four Marines killed Jan. 26 during an ambush in Iraq's Anbar Province.

-- Sgt. 1st Class Michael Benson, a Minnesota native, who married a woman from Colchester, was wounded by a roadside bomb in Iraq Aug. 2. He later died in a military hospital in Washington. He was buried in Belvidere.

-- Sgt. 1st Class Chris S. Chapin, 39, of Proctor, was killed by small arms fire while performing a civil affairs mission near Ramadi, Iraq.

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