
A North Carolina-based Marine died Saturday after a roadside bomb blast in Afghanistan’s Farah province, according to reports.
Lance Cpl. Julian T. Brennan, 25, was known as “Jules� to his family and friends, according to a report in the New York Daily News. A native of Brooklyn, N.Y., Brennan was a machine gunner assigned to Camp Lejeune’s 3rd Battalion, 8th Marines, the Corps said in a news release.
He aspired to be in show business, the newspaper reported.
Brennan was a “real swell kid, a very good-looking boy who was the darling of the girls,� family friend Charles Marahan told the Daily News. “Jules was made for the stage and the movies. You either have it or you don’t, and he had it.�
Brennan earned an associate’s degree from the American Academy of Dramatic Arts in Manhattan and worked on the...