Fort Wainwright

The final court case has been resolved involving a soldier accused of causing Private Danny Chen's suicide in 2011. 1st Lieutenant Daniel Schwartz was charged with eight counts of dereliction of duty after Chen shot himself last December, according to the Army in Fort Bragg, North Carolina. The Army said Chen was hazed by Schwartz and seven soldiers before he killed himself in Afghanistan. Schwartz will leave the military, instead of judicial punishment. The resolution of Schwartz's case was the last of the eight cases where soldiers were accused of hazing and maltreatment of Chen.

Just three days after Fort Wainwright Stryker Pfc. Brandon Mullins was killed by an improvised explosive device in Afghanistan, the Army says another soldier from the same brigade was killed in a similar but separate attack Monday. Spc. Douglas Jay Green, 23, of Sterling, Va., died from injuries sustained when insurgents attacked his unit using an IED and small arms while the unit was on a dismounted patrol. Two other soldiers from the same brigade were injured in the attack. Green was assigned to the 3rd Battalion, 21st Infantry Regiment, 1st Stryker Brigade Combat Team, 25th Infantry Division at Fort Wainwright where he served as an infantryman, according to U.S. Army Alaska public affairs officer Lt. Col. Bill Coppernoll.

An Army combat medic assigned to a Fort Wainwright hospital died in Fairbanks Monday after collapsing during physical training, according to U.S. Army Alaska officials. Sgt. 1st Class Bryan H. Hays, 40, was taken from Melaven Gym after being treated at the scene to Fairbanks Memorial Hospital, where he was later pronounced dead. Hays, born in Bossier, La., entered active-duty Army service in 1999. He most recently served as the noncommissioned officer in charge of emergency services at Bassett Army Community Hospital, and had previously served two tours of duty in Iraq during Operation Iraqi Freedom.

2nd Lt. John Shaw Vaughan, 23, was killed June 7, 2006, by enemy small-arms fire while on patrol in Mosul, Iraq.                               Vaughan, a native of Edwards, Colo., was assigned to the 172nd Stryker Brigade Combat Team based at Fort Wainwright.

Sgt. Kraig Foyteck, 26, was killed by enemy small-arms fire Oct. 30, 2006, in Baghdad.                 The La Port, Ind., native was an infantryman assigned to 2nd Battalion, 1st Infantry Regiment based at Fort Wainwright.

Cpl. Kenneth D. Hess, 26, served as infantryman and was killed April 11, 2006, suicide bombing attack while on duty in Rahwah, Iraq. Hess, a native of Asheville, N.C., was assigned to the 4th Squadron, 14th Cavalry Regiment, 172nd Stryker Brigade Combat Team based at Fort Wainwright.

Pfc. Raymond Henry, 21, served as an infantryman and was killed April 25, 2006, by a roadside bomb while on duty in Mosul, Iraq. Henry, a native of Anaheim, Calif., was assigned to the 1st Battalion, 17th Infantry Regiment, 172nd Stryker Brigade Combat Team based at Fort Wainwright.

Staff Sgt. Mark Wall, 27, died April 27, 2006, of cardiac arrest while on duty in Mosul, Iraq. Wall, a native of Iowa Falls, Iowa, was assigned to the 172nd Stryker Brigade Combat Team based at Fort Wainwright.

Sgt. Benjamin Mejia, 25, was killed May 31, 2006, in Mosul, Iraq. He served as a tactical unmanned aerial operator.                                  Mejia, a native of Salem, Mass., was assigned to the 172nd Stryker Brigade Combat Team based at Fort Wainwright. The circumstances surrounding his death were investigated by the U.S. Army.

Spc. Daniel D. Bartels, 22, was killed on Oct. 19, 2005, in an non-combat incident in Mosul, Iraq.                     Bartels, a native of Huron, S.D., served with the 172nd Stryker Brigade based at Fort Wainwright.