Jason David Mileo
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Age: 20 of Centreville
From: Centreville, Md.
Assigned to the 3rd Battalion, 4th Marine Regiment, 1st Marine Division based in Twentynine Palms, Calif. shot and
Incident: Marine Cpl. Jason David Mileo was killed after being mistaken for an enemy soldier in the vicinity of Baghdad. The incident is under investigation.
Died: April 14, 2003
Jason Mileo grew up in Maryland’s Chesapeake Bay country, where he hunted and fished with his father and grandfather.
He graduated in 2000 from Chesapeake High School in Pasadena, Md., where Principal Harry Calender remembers him as a “solid kid,” who seldom missed school, got Bs in algebra, played on the golf team and loved working on the crew for the drama club. “He was one of those kids you knew would grow up to do everything right,” Calender said.
But something went wrong. Mileo, 20, who survived the assault on Baghdad and was in the city square when the statue of Saddam fell, was killed April 14 in friendly fire. He was mistaken for an enemy soldier.
His parents, Phillip Hall and Leah Mileo Hall, of Centreville, Md., are in seclusion...