HM3 US Navy
1st Battalion, 6th Marines, 2nd Marine Division, Fleet Marine Force, Atlantic, out of Camp Lejeune, NC
He enlisted in the US Navy in August 2005. While awaiting his Navy school starting date, he competed with Navy SEAL candidates and excelled in Navy academics. At boot camp, he was the honor graduate, voted #1 in his class by his peers and senior staff, and went on to hospital corpsman medical training and advanced combat medical training. He was deployed to Ramadi, Iraq on September 6, 2006 and while there, he earned the affectionate title of "Doc", a title given to Navy hospital corpsmen that have impressed their US Marine Corps counterparts with medical excellence under field combat conditions. He died as a result of enemy action. He was promoted posthumously to the rank of US Navy Corpsman HM3.
Interment on December 27, 2006.
1st Battalion, 6th Marines, 2nd Marine Division, Fleet Marine Force, Atlantic, out of Camp Lejeune, NC
He enlisted in the US Navy in August 2005. While awaiting his Navy school starting date, he competed with Navy SEAL candidates and excelled in Navy academics. At boot camp, he was the honor graduate, voted #1 in his class by his peers and senior staff, and went on to hospital corpsman medical training and advanced combat medical training. He was deployed to Ramadi, Iraq on September 6, 2006 and while there, he earned the affectionate title of "Doc", a title given to Navy hospital corpsmen that have impressed their US Marine Corps counterparts with medical excellence under field combat conditions. He died as a result of enemy action. He was promoted posthumously to the rank of US Navy Corpsman HM3.
Interment on December 27, 2006.
HM3 US Navy
1st Battalion, 6th Marines, 2nd Marine Division, Fleet Marine Force, Atlantic, out of Camp Lejeune, NC
He enlisted in the US Navy in August 2005. While awaiting his Navy school starting date, he competed with Navy SEAL candidates and excelled in Navy academics. At boot camp, he was the honor graduate, voted #1 in his class by his peers and senior staff, and went on to hospital corpsman medical training and advanced combat medical training. He was deployed to Ramadi, Iraq on September 6, 2006 and while there, he earned the affectionate title of "Doc", a title given to Navy hospital corpsmen that have impressed their US Marine Corps counterparts with medical excellence under field combat conditions. He died as a result of enemy action. He was promoted posthumously to the rank of US Navy Corpsman HM3.
Interment on December 27, 2006.
1st Battalion, 6th Marines, 2nd Marine Division, Fleet Marine Force, Atlantic, out of Camp Lejeune, NC
He enlisted in the US Navy in August 2005. While awaiting his Navy school starting date, he competed with Navy SEAL candidates and excelled in Navy academics. At boot camp, he was the honor graduate, voted #1 in his class by his peers and senior staff, and went on to hospital corpsman medical training and advanced combat medical training. He was deployed to Ramadi, Iraq on September 6, 2006 and while there, he earned the affectionate title of "Doc", a title given to Navy hospital corpsmen that have impressed their US Marine Corps counterparts with medical excellence under field combat conditions. He died as a result of enemy action. He was promoted posthumously to the rank of US Navy Corpsman HM3.
Interment on December 27, 2006.
