Mark D. Juarez
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Age: 23
From: San Antonio, TX
Assigned to 1st Battalion, 3rd Marines, 3rd Marine Division, III Marine Expeditionary Force, Kaneohe Bay, Hawaii
Incident: Marine Lance Cpl. Mark D. Juarez died Jan. 9 while supporting combat operations in Helmand province, Afghanistan
Died: January 09, 2010
Hawaii-based Marines killed in Afghanistan
By William Cole
Honolulu Advertiser via Gannett News Service
Two Kaneohe Bay-based Marines were killed over the weekend in separate incidents in southern Afghanistan, the first fatalities in a seven-month deployment by the 1st Battalion, 3rd Marine Regiment, which left Hawaii in November.
Lance Cpl. Mark D. Juarez, 23, of San Antonio died Jan. 9 when a roadside bomb blast hit his vehicle in Helmand province, officials said.
The Pentagon also said Lance Cpl. Jacob A. Meinert, 20, of Fort Atkinson, Wis., died Jan. 10 “while supporting combat operations in Helmand province, Afghanistan.”
Juarez was killed in the blast along with Sunday Mirror reporter Rupert Hamer, Marine Corps officials said. Hamer was the first British journalist to die in Afghanistan.
The newspaper said its photographer and five other U.S. military people were wounded in the blast northwest of the town of Nawa, where the battalion of 1,000 Hawaii...