Brian M McPhillips
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Age: 25
From: Pembroke, Mass.
Assigned to 2nd Tank Battalion, 2nd Marine Division, Camp Lejeune, N.C.
Incident: Marine 1st Lt. Brian M. McPhillips was killed during a firefight in central Iraq.
Died: April 04, 2003
Brian McPhillips was a finance major at Providence College in Rhode Island when professor Paul Maloney assigned him a senior project. The result went well beyond Maloney’s expectations: McPhillips created and ran an Internet marketing business, Militarywarehouse.com, that sold old military supplies such as knives, patches and uniforms.
“He ran the business right out of his dorm room,” Maloney said. “I remember, he couldn’t keep the knives in his room, so he had to store them elsewhere. He actually made a little money doing it. He definitely got an A.”
McPhillips, 25, a Marine from Pembroke, Mass., was killed April 4 during a firefight in central Iraq.
In a statement, his parents, David and Julie McPhillips, said their son “loved his family...