3 Marines killed in Helmand province

[unhappycamper]

3 Marines killed in Helmand province
Staff report
Posted : Monday Mar 29, 2010 18:22:27 EDT

Three Marines died March 24 in Helmand province, Afghanistan, the Defense Department recently announced.

Lance Cpl. Jacob A. Ross, 19, an assault man with 2nd Battalion, 2nd Marines, was killed in a hostile incident, although the Defense Department has not yet released details of his death. Ross, of Gillette, Wyo., joined the Marines in July 2008 and deployed to Afghanistan in October 2009.

The two other Marines killed March 24 were reservists with 4th Light Armored Reconnaissance Battalion. They were Lance Cpl. Rick J. Centannni, 19, of Yorba Linda, Calif., and Sgt. Maj. Robert J. Cottle, 45, of Whittier, Calif. The two were killed in the same incident, when a roadside bomb struck their convoy.

Further details have not been released.


Article at: http://marinecorpstimes.com/news/2010/03/marine_casualties_afghanistan_032910/



unhappycamper comment: To date one thousand thirty American soldiers have died in the ongoing occupation of Afghanistan --> http://icasualties.org/OEF/index.aspx

[democrank]

1. Rest in peace