
RALEIGH, N.C. — A Marine Corps helicopter pilot was killed in Iraq when shots fired from the ground hit him while he was on a mission, the military said Thursday.
Lt. Col. David S. Greene, 39, was among the highest-ranking officers to die since the U.S.-led coalition invaded Iraq in March 2003.
The Pentagon listed his home town as Raleigh. Maj. Randy Parker, a spokesman for Greene’s Marine Corps Reserve training detachment in Johnstown, Pa., said Greene was a Raleigh native and listed it as his hometown, but that he lived in Shelburne, Vt.
Greene is survived by a wife and children in Vermont. A message left at his home was...