Mark A. Wojciechowski
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Age: 25
From: Cincinnati
Assigned to the 7th Engineer Support Battalion, 1st Marine Logistics Group, I Marine Expeditionary Force, Camp Pendleton, Calif.
Incident: Marine Staff Sgt. Mark A. Wojciechowski died April 30 in Camp Baharia, Iraq, while supporting combat operations. Also killed was Sgt. James R. McIlvaine.
Died: April 30, 2009
Family had deep military roots
The Associated Press
Mark A. Wojciechowski was raised in a military household. His step-grandfather served in the Marines and his mother served in the Army.
Wojciechowski signed up for basic training the fall after he graduated high school. It was there that he really grew up, said Cathy Dillinger, Wojciechowski’s step-grandmother.
“It’s one of those cases where he goes in a boy and comes out a man,” Dillinger said. “After basic training, he aged emotionally 10 years. He was just a good man.”
Wojciechowski, 25, of Cincinnati died April 30 while supporting combat operations in Anbar province. He was assigned to Camp Pendleton.
“He loved being a Marine. He probably would have made a career out of it,” Dillinger said. “He just wanted to do his duty wherever he could.”
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