Jonathan W. Grant
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Age: 23
From: Santa Fe, N.M.
Assigned to the 4th Reconnaissance Battalion, 4th Marine Division, Marine Forces Reserve, Albuquerque, N.M. attached to Regimental Combat Team 2, 2nd Marine Division, II Marine Expeditionary Force (Forward)
Incident: Marine Lance Cpl. Jonathan W. Grant was killed May 11 when his amphibious assault vehicle struck an explosive device while conducting combat operations against enemy forces in Karabilah, Iraq. Also
Died: May 11, 2005
Pojoaque Marine killed in Iraq explosion
Associated Press
POJOAQUE, N.M. — A Marine from Pojoaque was killed in Iraq when an explosive device detonated near a vehicle he was riding in, his family said.
The grandmother of Lance Cpl. Jonathan Grant, 23, said she was notified Friday that he died in an explosion Wednesday.
“I didn’t expect this because he said he was coming home soon,” said Margie Warner, 83, Grant’s grandmother who raised him since he was an infant. “Now I understand because now he’s coming home.”
The U.S. Department of Defense has confirmed the deaths of six Marines in one squad when the troop transporter they were riding in hit a bomb while working as part of Operation Matador in Karabilah, but it hadn’t released all of their identities as of early Monday.
Grant is the 10th New Mexico service member to be killed in Iraq.
Family members said Grant worked in radio...