Brad P McCormick
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Age: 23
From: Overton, Tenn.
Assigned to the 3rd Battalion, 24th Marine Regiment, 4th Marine Division, Marine Corps Reserve, Nashville, Tenn.
Incident: Marine Cpl. Brad P. McCormick was killed Aug. 19 by enemy action in Anbar province, Iraq.
Died: August 19, 2004
As a little boy, Brad McCormick was always taking things apart and putting them back together again. "He loved tinkering with things," said his mother, Gail. "I used to get so aggravated with him when he was little." But it was his interest in the military as he grew older that really irked his mother. When he joined the Marine reserves, she said, "It killed me." McCormick, 23, of Allons, Tenn., died Aug. 19 in an explosion in Najaf, Iraq. He was based in Nashville, Tenn. McCormick joined the reserves while studying wildlife biology at Tennessee Tech and putting his tinkering skills to use with a part-time job at a hardware store. When he learned that his Marine unit would be sent to Iraq, he moved up his planned wedding to Courtney Curtis to...