Ray A. Spencer II
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Age: 20
From: Ridgecrest, Calif.
Assigned to the 3rd Battalion, 3rd Marine Regiment, 3rd Marine Division, Kaneohe Bay, Hawaii
Incident: Marine Lance Cpl. Ray A. Spencer II died April 16 in Anbar province, Iraq, as a result of a non-hostile incident.
Died: April 16, 2009
‘Non-hostile’ Iraq death investigated
Staff report
Officials are investigating the April 16 death in Iraq of a Hawaii-based Marine.
Lance Cpl. Ray A. Spencer II, 20, of Ridgecrest, Calif., died as a result of a “non-hostile incident” in Anbar province, according to the Defense Department. He was assigned to 3rd Battalion, 3rd Marines, out of Kaneohe Bay.
The military has not said how Spencer died. A friend told Spencer’s widow that her husband died from a gunshot wound, according to a report in the Bakersfield Californian.
“They’ve told us probably as much as they’ve told you,” Athena Spencer told the newspaper. “It was on base, so it wasn’t combat.”
Ray Spencer, a rifleman, joined the Corps in June 2006 and had just deployed to Iraq for the second time in April. His first tour was from August 2007 to February 2008, according to a Marine...