Richard P. Slocum
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Age: 19
From: Saugus, Calif.
Assigned to 1st Battalion, 3rd Marine Regiment, 3rd Marine Division, III Marine Expeditionary Force, Marine Corps Base, Hawaii
Incident: Marine Lance Cpl. Richard P. Slocum was killed Oct 24 in a non-combat-related vehicle accident near Abu Ghraib, Iraq.
Died: October 24, 2004
Hawaii-based Marine killed in Iraq
Associated Press
HONOLULU — A Kaneohe-based Marine has died in Iraq from injuries suffered in a non-combat related vehicle accident, the Pentagon said Tuesday.
Lance Cpl. Richard P. Slocum, 19, of Saugus, Calif., died Oct. 24 after the crash near Abu Gharib, Iraq. The accident was under investigation, the Pentagon said in a brief statement.
Further details were unavailable.
Slocum was assigned to the 1st Battalion, 3rd Marine Regiment, 3rd Marine Division, III Marine Expeditionary Force at Marine Corps Base Hawaii at Kaneohe Bay.
Gunnery Sgt. Claudia LaMantia, a base spokeswoman, said Slocum was assigned to Kaneohe in February and had no family in the islands.
About 900 members of the 1st Battalion, 3rd Marine Regiment from Kaneohe were mobilized in August for combat duty in Iraq. They left for the Middle East from Okinawa, Japan, where they had been since early...