Cpl. Andres Aguilar of Victoria, Texas was a 2002 graduate of Memorial High School where he played football his freshman year and ran cross country his junior year, and played soccer all four years of high school and volunteered to coach a YMCA soccer team. "A.J." had considered a career as a pediatrician and an education at the University of Texas-Austin. He is remembered as being an extremely intelligent, personable, easy-going and kind man who was protective of his three younger siblings, would surprise his mother with roses, and joined the Marines to protect his country.
He had served a tour in Afghanistan after joining the Marines back in 2002. A.J. was the 47th Marine from the islands to die in Iraq since the war was started on March 19, 2003. He died when the seven-ton truck they were riding in rolled over in a flash flood near Al Asad, Iraq at age 21.
Marines
3rd Battalion
3rd Marine Regiment
3rd Marine Division
III Marine Expeditionary Force
Kaneohe Bay, Hawaii
America's Battalion
He had served a tour in Afghanistan after joining the Marines back in 2002. A.J. was the 47th Marine from the islands to die in Iraq since the war was started on March 19, 2003. He died when the seven-ton truck they were riding in rolled over in a flash flood near Al Asad, Iraq at age 21.
Marines
3rd Battalion
3rd Marine Regiment
3rd Marine Division
III Marine Expeditionary Force
Kaneohe Bay, Hawaii
America's Battalion
Cpl. Andres Aguilar of Victoria, Texas was a 2002 graduate of Memorial High School where he played football his freshman year and ran cross country his junior year, and played soccer all four years of high school and volunteered to coach a YMCA soccer team. "A.J." had considered a career as a pediatrician and an education at the University of Texas-Austin. He is remembered as being an extremely intelligent, personable, easy-going and kind man who was protective of his three younger siblings, would surprise his mother with roses, and joined the Marines to protect his country.
He had served a tour in Afghanistan after joining the Marines back in 2002. A.J. was the 47th Marine from the islands to die in Iraq since the war was started on March 19, 2003. He died when the seven-ton truck they were riding in rolled over in a flash flood near Al Asad, Iraq at age 21.
Marines
3rd Battalion
3rd Marine Regiment
3rd Marine Division
III Marine Expeditionary Force
Kaneohe Bay, Hawaii
America's Battalion
He had served a tour in Afghanistan after joining the Marines back in 2002. A.J. was the 47th Marine from the islands to die in Iraq since the war was started on March 19, 2003. He died when the seven-ton truck they were riding in rolled over in a flash flood near Al Asad, Iraq at age 21.
Marines
3rd Battalion
3rd Marine Regiment
3rd Marine Division
III Marine Expeditionary Force
Kaneohe Bay, Hawaii
America's Battalion
