Casey L. Casanova
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Age: 22
From: McComb, Miss.
Assigned to the Combat Logistics Battalion 1, Combat Logistics Regiment 1, 1st Marine Logistics Group, I Marine Expeditionary Force, Camp Pendleton, Calif.
Incident: Marine Lance Cpl. Casey L. Casanova died May 2 in Karmah, Iraq, while supporting combat operations. Also killed were Cpl. Miguel A. Guzman, Lance Cpl. James F. Kimple and Sgt. Glen E. Martinez.
Died: May 02, 2008
Roadside bomb kills 4 Marines in Anbar
By Andrew Tilghman
Staff writer
It seemed like a routine patrol along a route outside Fallujah.
The road near the town of Karma, Iraq, had been quiet for months. But shortly before midnight on May 2, a roadside bomb killed four Marines, making it Anbar province’s deadliest attack in nearly nine months.
Lance Cpl. Casey Casanova, 22, of McComb, Miss., called her father several hours before she was killed.
“She said ‘Dad, it’s boring over here. There’s nothing going on over here,’” Craig Casanova said.
His daughter was killed in the attack, along with Sgt. Glen E. Martinez, 31, of Boulder, Colo. Cpl. James Kimple, 21, of Amanda, Ohio and Cpl. Miguel A. Guzman, 21, of Norwalk, Calif.
They were assigned to Combat Logistics Battalion-1, Combat Logistics Regiment-1, 1st Marine Logistics Group, I Marine...