Kelley L. Courtney
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Age: 28
From: Macon, Ga.
Assigned to 3rd Intelligence Battalion, III Marine Expeditionary Force, Okinawa, Japan
Incident: Marine Sgt. Kelley L. Courtney was killed Oct 30 by enemy action in Anbar province, Iraq.
Died: October 30, 2004
Georgia Marine warned of ‘hornets nest’ before death
Associated Press
MACON, Ga. — A Marine from Georgia who was among eight Marines killed in Iraq outside the city of Fallujah had confided to his brother that he was entering “a hornets nest,” The Macon Telegraph reported.
Sgt. Kelley Courtney, a counterintelligence officer, had been in Iraq about six weeks when a car bomb exploded next to his truck on Saturday.
Lance Cpl. Michael P. Scarborough, 28, of Washington, Ga., also was among the Marines killed Saturday.
“Don’t tell Mom, but I’m scared,” Courtney said in his last e-mail to his older brother, Joey Fernandez, in Macon. “We are about to stir up a hornets nest here shortly and I’m going to be right in the middle of it.”
Courtney apologized for any past disagreements with his brother, the newspaper reported in its Tuesday editions.
“I thought he was homesick,” Fernandez told The Telegraph. “But...