
CENTRALIA, Wash. — A Navy reserve mess cook became the first Lewis County resident to die in Iraq following a suicide car bomb attack outside Fallujah, a Navy spokeswoman told The Chronicle of Centralia.
Petty Officer 1st Class Regina Clark, 43, was deployed nearly five months ago with Naval Mobile Construction Battalion 18 out of Tacoma, according to Chief Petty Officer Jeri Robinson at the Navy submarine base in Bangor.
A suicide car bomber and gunmen ambushed a convoy carrying female Marines on Thursday, killing two Marines and leaving another four American military personnel presumed dead, the military said Friday. At least two women were killed, including Clark, and 11 of 13 wounded were female.
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