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March 21 to 27
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March 21
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Major Jay Thomas Aubin, USMCMaj. Jay Thomas Aubin, Marine Aviation Weapons and Tactics Squadron - 1, 3rd Marine Aircraft Wing, Marine Corps Air Station Yuma, Arizona. He was 36, and was from Waterville, Maine. Major Aubin (promoted from captain posthumously), trained pilots from the Marine Corps and other military services as part of the Marine Aviation Weapons and Tactics Squadron-1. He had been stationed in Yuma since July. His memorial service, in a chapel at Marine Corps Air Station, Yuma, Arizona, drew hundreds of mourners.A memorial page for Major Aubin, where friends may leave messages & reminiscences, has recently been established. To visit, click here. |
Captain Ryan Anthony Beaupre, USMCCapt. Ryan Anthony Beaupre, 30, of St Anne, Illinois. He was assigned to the Marine Medium Helicopter Squadron - 268, 3d Marine Aircraft Wing, Marine Corps Air Station Camp Pendleton, California.In Oceanside, California, near Camp Pendleton, shortly after the death of Capt Beaupre was reported, the owner of Dorothy's Military Shop and Laundry, recalled that Beaupre had been in her shop on just a few weeks ago, on January 31, to have name tags sewn on his desert camouflage uniforms. ST. ANNE, Ill. -- The town of St. Anne, Ill., buried Marine Capt. Ryan Anthony Beaupre Thursday. Beaupre, a pilot, died March 21 in a helicopter crash in Kuwait, about 9 miles from the Iraqi border. The 30-year-old was among the first U.S. casualties of the war in Iraq. 
The funeral service took place at a small Catholic church on the northwestern corner of
town. Beaupre was buried with full military honors at St. Anne Catholic Cemetery.
Mourners entered the church under a U.S. flag that was flown atop the Capitol in
Washington on March 22.
U.S. flags, most of them at half-staff, were flown from light poles and buildings
throughout the town of 1,300.
Wednesday, a Marine honor guard escorted Beaupre's flag-draped coffin through his hometown
to a wake at the town's grade school, which closed at noon. Poems and drawings made by
schoolchildren and dedicated to Beaupre lined the red, white and blue halls.
Beaupre was one of four children of Mark and Nicky Beaupre. He was a graduate of Bishop
McNamara High School and Illinois Wesleyan University, and he had been in the Marine Corps
since 1995.
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Staff Sgt. Kendall Damon Waters-Bey, USMCThe body of Marine Staff Sgt. Kendall D. Waters-Bey, a Northeast Baltimore native who was among the first casualties of the Iraq war, is back in the United States. Waters-Bey's body was flown to Dover Air Force Base early Thursday morning, his father said. The military has told Waters-Bey's family the remains will be turned over to them in three to five days. At that point, the family will begin planning services to be held in Baltimore. Waters-Bey, 29, died when the helicopter he was aboard crashed March 20, the second day of combat.Through the efforts of Rep. Dutch Ruppersberger, a trust fund for Kendall's 10-year-old son (now in the care of his grandfather) has been established. If you would like to help, you can contact the trust fund at this address: The Kendall D. Waters-Bey Trust Fund For Kenneth D. Waters-Bey The Harbor Bank Of Maryland 3240 Belair Road Baltimore, MD 21213-1228 Account # 8100247851 |
Cpl. Brian Matthew Kennedy, USMCCpl. Brian Kennedy, 25, of Houston, Texas: crew chief and mechanic, Marine Medium Helicopter Squadron - 268, 3d Marine Aircraft Wing, Marine Corps Air Station Camp Pendleton, California. Kennedy grew up in Glenview, Illinois, played football and lacrosse in high school, and attended college for a year each at Purdue University and Texas Tech. He was especially fond of his parents' retirement home in Port Clyde, Maine. ''Brian loved this spot," recalls his mother. "He could rock-climb, he could eat Great Eastern mussels and lobster, he could cook, he could sail with us, he laughed all the time while he was here. He wore his flip-flops and stared at the stars in the Adirondack chairs.'' |
March 21
2nd Lt. Therrel S. Childers, USMC2nd Lt. Therrel "Shane" Childers, 1st Battalion, 5th Marine Regiment, 1st Marine Division, Camp Pendleton, Calif., died early Friday, March 21, after leading his infantry platoon in a firefight to secure an oil pumping station in southern Iraq. 2Lt. Childers was wounded while battling a platoon of Iraqi infantry and was transported by helicopter to a surgical company in Kuwait. Age 30, Childers came from a military family. He was born near West Hamlin, West Virginia, but grew up primarily in Harrison County, Mississippi.
He graduated in 2001 from The Citadel in South Carolina.
2Lt Childers also served with the Marine Security Guard Battalion at the US Consulate in Geneva, Switzerland, and the US Embassy in Nairobi, Kenya. Read more about 2Lt Childers at the Marine Embassy Guard Association website. |
March 21
Lance Cpl. Jose Gutierrez, USMCLance Cpl. Jose Gutierrez, 2nd Battalion, 1st Marine Regiment, 1st Marine Division, Camp Pendleton, Calif., died Friday around 4 p.m. while fighting enemy Iraqi forces near the port of Umm Qasr. Gutierrez was 22, and was from Guatemala. At age 16 he had traveled north, mostly by boxcar, some 2000 miles to America. He was taken in by a Central American family in Lomita, south of Los Angeles. He had planned to study architecture in college, but first wished to serve in the Marines in order to give back to this country something of what he felt it had given him. |
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