
SELLERSVILLE, Pa. — A Marine from Bucks County died Monday in Iraq from wounds received in an explosion, the Defense Department said Wednesday.
Lance Cpl. Robert T. Mininger, 21, based at Camp Lejeune, N.C., had been sent to Iraq in January.
Family members in Sellersville said military officers told them that Mininger was on patrol near Fallujah, an insurgent stronghold near Baghdad, when his Humvee hit an improvised explosive device.
Mininger’s job was to search for roadside bombs, and he had told family members that the Humvee had been hit with shrapnel several times before, said his father, Tom Mininger.
Mininger played football at Pennridge High School....