Jamie R. Lowe
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Age: 21
From: Johnsonville, IL
Assigned to the 3rd Reconnaissance Battalion, 3rd Marine Division, III Marine Expeditionary Force, Okinawa, Japan
Incident: Marine Cpl. Jamie R. Lowe died Jan. 11 while supporting combat operations in Helmand province, Afghanistan. Also killed were Staff Sgt. Matthew N. Ingham and Cpl. Nicholas K. Uzenski.
Died: January 11, 2010
3 Recon Marines killed in Afghanistan
Staff report
OCEANSIDE, Calif. — Three Japan-based Reconnaissance Marines died Monday during combat operations in Afghanistan’s Helmand province, defense officials announced Wednesday.
Killed were: Staff Sgt. Matthew N. Ingham, 25, of Altoona, Pa. and Cpls. Jamie R. Lowe, 21, of Johnsonville, Ill., and Nicholas K. Uzenski, 21, of Tomball, Texas.
The three Marines were assigned to 3rd Reconnaissance Battalion, 3rd Marine Division, which is based in Okinawa, Japan.
Pentagon officials did not release information about their deaths. The NATO command reported that six NATO troops died Monday in separate incidents in Afghanistan, including three U.S. service members killed during a firefight with militants during a patrol in southern Afghanistan.
Ingham’s parents told the Altoona Mirror, a Pennsylvania newspaper, that their son, who was married and had done two combat tours in Iraq, played football and loved...