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Marine from Navajo Nation killed in Afghanistan |
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Friday, 19 February 2010 |
Marine from Navajo Nation killed in Afghanistan
Feb. 18, 2010
Associated Press
WINDOW ROCK - A Marine from the small Navajo community of Rock Point, Ariz., has died in Afghanistan.
The remains of 23-year-old Lance Cpl. Alejandro Yazzie arrived at Dover Air Force Base in Delaware on Thursday.
The Defense Department says Yazzie died on Tuesday while supporting combat operations in Helmand province, Afghanistan. That's the site of a major offensive by U.S. and Afghan forces against the Taliban.
He was assigned to 1st Combat Engineer Battalion, 1st Marine Division, I Marine Expeditionary Force, in Camp Pendleton, Calif.
A spokesman for the Navajo Nation president says 11 Navajos serving in either Iraq or Afghanistan have been killed.
Tribal officials say Yazzie was a 2004 graduate of Rock Point High School and is survived by his parents, three brothers, a sister and his grandmother.
Funeral arrangements are pending.
http://www.azcentral.com/news/articles/2010/02/18/20100218marine-from-navajo-nation-killed.html
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