Adam T. McKiski
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Age: 21
From: Cherry Valley, Ill.
Assigned to the 1st Maintenance Battalion, 1st Marine Logistics Group, I Marine Expeditionary Force, Camp Pendleton, Calif.
Incident: Marine Cpl. Adam T. McKiski died Aug. 7 while supporting combat operations in Karmah, Iraq. Also killed was Cpl. Stewart S. Trejo.
Died: August 07, 2008
Three enlisted Marines killed in Iraq
Staff report
Three enlisted Marines were killed in Iraq’s Anbar province during a four-day span in mid-August.
Sgt. Michael Ferschke Jr., 22, died from wounds suffered during a house-to-house search Aug. 10 in Salah ad Din province, according to media and Defense Department reports. Cpl. Adam T. McKiski, 21, and Cpl. Stewart S. Trejo, 25, died Aug. 7 in a vehicle accident outside Fallujah, Marine officials said.
Ferschke, who had family ties in Rhode Island and eastern Tennessee, was a radio operator with the 3rd Reconnaissance Battalion at Camp Butler, Okinawa, according to the Providence (R.I.) Journal. McKiski, of Cherry Valley, Ill., and Trejo, of Whitefish, Mont., were artillery technicians with 1st Maintenance Battalion, based at Camp Pendleton, Calif.
Born in Woonsocket, R.I., Ferschke moved south with his family at age 9, the Journal reported. A 2003 graduate of...