Mourad Ragimov
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Age: 20
From: San Diego, Calif.
Assigned to 1st Battalion, 3rd Marine Regiment, 3rd Marine Division, III Marine Expeditionary Force, Marine Corps Base Hawaii
Incident: Marine Lance Cpl. Mourad Ragimov was killed Jan. 26 when the CH-53E helicopter in which he was riding crashed near Rutbah, Iraq. Twenty-nine Marines and one sailor also were
Died: January 26, 2005
San Diego Marine among those killed in helicopter crash
Associated Press
SAN DIEGO — Dinara Ragimov believed her Marine son was still in Hawaii when she got a call from him on Christmas Eve.
Lance Cpl. Mourad Ragimov then broke the news that he had, in fact, been fighting in Fallujah, Iraq, for weeks with the 1st Battalion, 3rd Marines.
“He said, ‘Mom, I can tell you the truth now because the worst part is past. There will be no more danger,’” Dinara Ragimov told The San Diego Union-Tribune on Thursday as she looked over his childhood photos and images of him as a Marine.
On Wednesday, Ragimov and 30 other military personnel, most of them from Marine Corps Base Hawaii at Kaneohe, were killed in a helicopter crash near the city of Rutbah.
Ragimov, 20, is believed to be the only San Diegan killed in the crash.
Three crewmen based at San Diego’s Marines Corps Air Station Miramar were flying the...