
LOUISVILLE, Ky. — A Marine from Kentucky was among three killed this week during combat operations in Iraq, the military said July 26.
Lance Cpl. Robert A. Lynch, 20, of Louisville, died July 24 in Diyala province — the site of a major military operation against a Sunni insurgent stronghold, the Defense Department said in a statement.
Lynch was assigned to 1st Battalion, 12th Marine Regiment, 3rd Marine Division, III Marine Expeditionary Force, Okinawa, Japan.
He graduated from Seneca High School in 2005 and school officials spoke highly of him.
“He was a hero for us,” Michael McWilliams, a counselor at Seneca, told The (Louisville) Courier-Journal. “He...