
FLAT CREEK, Tenn. — A 19-year old Marine from Tennessee was killed in eastern Afghanistan, where U.S. troops are hunting Taliban and al-Qaida fighters, officials said.
Daniel McClenney, from Flat Creek in Bedford County, died during a skirmish Thursday, said his father, Randy McClenney.
Two Marine officers told his father that the young leatherneck, one year out of Shelbyville Central High School, was one of two Marines killed during the attack.
Daniel McClenney had been in Afghanistan two months, his father said, part of 2,000 extra Marines sent this spring to bring the coalition force to about 20,000.
“But I never thought of anything like this,” his...