
A 20-year-old corporal who lists her mom as her hero in an online profile was identified by the Defense Department as the fifth female Marine killed in Iraq since 2003.
Cpl. Jennifer M. Parcell, 20, was killed Feb. 7 “while supporting combat operations” in Anbar province, according to a Feb. 8 Defense Department release.
Parcell, of Bel Air, Md., was assigned to the Okinawa, Japan-based Combat Logistics Regiment 3. According to her profile on the networking Web site Myspace.com, Parcell was a landing support specialist.
Parcell had headlined her MySpace profile with “going to be chillin in Iraq for awhile,” and described herself as a 5-foot-2-inch...