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Marine Lance Cpl. Philip J. Martini
Died April 8, 2006 Serving During Operation Iraqi Freedom
24, of Lansing, Ill.; assigned to 1st Battalion, 1st Marine Regiment, 1st Marine Division, I Marine Expeditionary Force, Camp Pendleton, Calif.; died April 8 of a gunshot wound while conducting combat operations in Anbar Province, Iraq.
Lansing Marine killed in Anbar Province, Iraq
LANSING, Ill. — The Department of Defense on Friday confirmed the death of a 24-year-old Marine from this south Chicago suburb.
Lance Cpl. Philip J. Martini was killed by sniper fire last weekend in Anbar Province, Iraq, the DoD said in a statement. He was assigned to the 1st Battalion, 1st Marine Regiment, 1st Marine Division, I Marine Expeditionary Force out of Camp Pendleton, Calif.
Martini was a 2000 graduate of Thornton Fractional South High School in Lansing and enlisted in the Marine Corps in 2003. He spent a few months on a tsunami-relief assignment in southeast Asia before serving in Iraq for five months last year, his brother, Anthony Martini, said Thursday.
He left home for a second Iraq tour in January.
— Associated Press