Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/William Wood (United States Army officer)
the Associated Press has a searchable database and based on its http://nrcdata.ap.org/casualties/list.aspx?a=1&l=&r=&p=Col.&sp=&f=&il=&ic=&s=&sb=&su=&ss=&da=anytime&sort=name&recs=50 search results, there were 32 LTC and COLs, of which 10 were COLs that were killed in Iraq; in addition there was http://nrcdata.ap.org/casualties/list.aspx?a=1&l=&r=&p=Capt.&sp=&f=&il=&ic=&s=&sb=Navy&su=&ss=&da=anytime&sort=name&recs=50 one Navy Captain killed in Iraq as well. The only way to determine which is the highest ranked, is to see who had the highest time in grade, as I am not aware of any general or flag officers killed in Iraq. Now general or flag officers would be considered notable per , Colonels or Navy Captains are not considered presumed notable (as general and flag officers go through congressional approval and are technically presidential appointments here in the United States). The question is does the subject of this AfD meet , or received considerable coverage outside of the subject's death (which is questionable). Now if the subject only received significant coverage due to their death than I can understand  being applicable
— User:RightCowLeftCoast, 06:06, 18 June 2013 (UTC)
Stance: comment
Cited policy: WP:SOLDIER||WP:GNG||WP:NOTMEMORIAL (Wikipedia:Notability)