
ATHENS, Ga. — A University of Georgia student who took a break from school to fight in Iraq was killed in Anbar province on Friday, the Defense Department said.
Bradley Thomas Arms, a 20-year-old from Charlottesville, Va., left Athens the summer before his junior year to fight in Iraq. Defense officials Monday said the Marine was killed as a result of enemy action.
“We really don’t know a whole lot,” said Sgt. Rick Caisse of the Marines in Lynchburg, Va. “He was killed by small-arms fire. We should be finding out more.”
Arms’ father, Bob Arms, said his son saw the Marine Corps as a way to improve himself and help people.
“After he got back from boot...