
ALAMEDA, Calif. — A 24-year-old Marine from the San Francisco Bay area who had been scheduled to return home in two weeks for the birth of his child was among four U.S. soldiers killed by enemy fire in Iraq on Sept. 24, according to the U.S. Department of Defense.
Lance Cpl. Aaron Boyles, of Alameda, was killed in Iraq’s Anbar province, which includes the restive city of Fallujah, the Pentagon announced Saturday. He was assigned to the 7th Marine Regiment, 1st Marine Division of the Marine Corps Air Ground Combat Center in Twentynine Palms, Calif.
Boyles’ wife, Prabha, 25, said her husband called her Sept. 22 to say that his homecoming would be delayed by one...