Alaska Marine killed in Afghanistan

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Alaska Marine killed in Afghanistan
Staff report
Posted : Tuesday Oct 14, 2008 6:59:10 EDT

A California-based Marine was killed Thursday in Afghanistan, according to the Defense Department.

Cpl. Jason A. Karella, 20, of Anchorage, Alaska, died supporting combat operations in Farah province. Karella, a tube-launched, optically tracked, wire-guided antitank missile gunner, was killed when his Humvee rolled over while he was in the gun turret, according to the Naval Safety Center.

“He was the vehicle commander, (and had) the best seat on the armored Humvee,” Karella’s father, Kevin Karella, told an NBC news affiliate in Alaska. “But the guy up in the turret wasn’t feeling good, and so he gave up his seat … and he climbed up in the turret.

“And had he not been in the turret, he would have not been killed.”

Karella was born in Fairbanks, where much of his family still lives, according to a report in the Fairbanks Daily News Miner. He spent his senior year of high school at the Alaska Military Youth Academy, the TV station reported.


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uhc comment: To date six hundred eleven soldiers have died in the invasion and occupation of Afghanistan --> http://icasualties.org/oef/