| Marines from St. Clair, Grosse Pointe Park killed in Iraq
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Two Marines with Michigan ties died in separate incidents in Iraq's Anbar province, the Department of Defense said Wednesday.Maj. Joseph T. McCloud, 39, of Grosse Pointe Park, was one of four American service members who died Sunday when the CH-46 helicopter they were in crashed. McCloud was assigned to 2nd Battalion, 3rd Marine Regiment, 3rd Marine Division, III Marine Expeditionary Force, at Kaneohe Bay, Hawaii.A power malfunction forced the aircraft to make an emergency landing on Lake Qadisiyah, a huge reservoir behind the hydroelectric dam at Haditha on the Euphrates River in Anbar province, an insurgent stronghold west of Baghdad. Twelve passengers survived.There was no fighting in the area at the time.McCloud was an infantry officer who enlisted in the Marine Corps in 1990 and was commissioned in April 1992. He reported to Hawaii in April.Lance Cpl. Thomas P. Echols, 20, of Shepherdsville, Ky., died Monday in combat, the Defense Department said. He was assigned to 1st Battalion, 6th Marine Regiment, 2nd Marine Division, II Marine Expeditionary Force, at Camp... |
