Brett L. Lundstrom
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Age: 22
From: Stafford, Va.
Assigned to 2nd Battalion, 6th Marine Regiment, 2nd Marine Division, II Marine Expeditionary Force, Camp Lejeune, N.C.
Incident: Marine Cpl. Brett L. Lundstrom was killed Jan. 7 by enemy small-arms fire while conducting combat operations near Fallujah, Iraq.
Died: January 07, 2006
S. D. native stationed in N.C. killed in Iraq
Associated Press
BLACK HAWK, S.D. — A South Dakota native serving in the Marine Corps in Iraq was killed Saturday during bombings and fire fights, the Department of Defense announced Wednesday.
Cpl. Brett L. Lundstrom, 22, of Stafford, Va., and four other members of the North Carolina-based 2nd Marine Expeditionary Force died in the attacks.
Lundstrom, an Oglala Sioux Tribe member, was born in Vermillion and attended high school in Virginia.
His mother, Doyla (Underbaggage) Lundstrom of Black Hawk, is from Kyle on the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation. She said her son’s lifelong ambition was to be a Marine.
“He’s always said he was going to be a Marine since he was little,” she told the Rapid City Journal.
Also killed were Lance Cpl. Kyle W. Brown, 22, of Newport News, Va. Lance Cpl. Jeriad P. Jacobs, 19, of Clayton, N.C. Lance Cpl. Jason T. Little, 20, of...