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Lance Deshon E Otey
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Name: Marine Lance Cpl. Deshon E. Otey
Age: 24
From: Hardin, Ky.
Assigned to 2nd Battalion, 4th Marine Regiment, 1st Marine Division, I Marine Expeditionary Force, Camp Pendleton, Calif.
Incident: Marine Lance Cpl. Deshon E. Otey was killed June 21 by hostile fire in Anbar province, Iraq.
Died: June 21, 2004
Hostile fire kills Marine in Iraq
Associated Press
Age: 24
From: Hardin, Ky.
Assigned to 2nd Battalion, 4th Marine Regiment, 1st Marine Division, I Marine Expeditionary Force, Camp Pendleton, Calif.
Incident: Marine Lance Cpl. Deshon E. Otey was killed June 21 by hostile fire in Anbar province, Iraq.
Died: June 21, 2004
Hostile fire kills Marine in Iraq
Associated Press
LOUISVILLE, Ky. — The mother of a 24-year-old Marine from Kentucky killed by hostile fire in Iraq said her son had dreams of one day becoming an FBI agent.
Lance Cpl. Deshon E. Otey, 24, of Radcliff, Ky., was a rifleman assigned to the 2nd Battalion, 4th Marine Regiment, 1st Marine Division, 1st Marine Expeditionary Force, which is based at Camp Pendleton, Calif. He was killed Monday in Anbar province, Iraq, officials said Tuesday.
“He told me when he got out (of the Marines) he was going to join the Delta Force,” the Army’s elite fighting unit, Robin Mays, Otey’s mother, said in a phone interview with The Associated Press Tuesday night. “He liked that kind of work. He was a...
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2nd Battalion, 4th Marine Regiment, 1st Marine Division, I Marine Expeditionary Force, Camp Pendleton, Calif.
Incident
Marine Lance Cpl. Deshon E. Otey was killed June 21 by hostile fire in Anbar province, Iraq.
Prayers & Messages
Lance Deshon E Otey
2008-04-09
May the grace of God, the love of Jesus, and the peace of the Holy Spirit be with you and your family forever.