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thedrifter
06-30-04, 06:40 PM
Three Marines from Pa.-based reserve unit killed in Iraq
By Associated Press, 6/30/2004 18:37

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PHILADELPHIA (AP) Three Marines killed by a roadside bomb in Iraq were identified by the military Wednesday as members of a reserve unit based in Pennsylvania.

Marine Sgt. Alan D. Sherman, of the Wanamassa section of Ocean Township, N.J., Cpl. John Todd III, 25, of Bridgeport, Pa., and Lance Cpl. Patrick Adle, 21, of Belair, Md., died Tuesday when the bomb exploded near the lead vehicle of their convoy.

Two other Marines were wounded in the 10 a.m. attack in eastern Baghdad, the first assault on U.S. forces after the transfer of sovereignty to an interim Iraqi government. The convoy was rolling along a four-lane highway when the device exploded.

All were members of Bridge Company B of the 6th Engineer Support Battalion, a unit based in Folsom, Pa., that was on its second deployment in Iraq.

As of Tuesday, June 29, 853 U.S. service members have died since the beginning of military operations in Iraq last year, according to the Defense Department.

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