Marine Sgt. Daniel A. Tsue

Died November 1, 2005 Serving During Operation Iraqi Freedom

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27, of Honolulu; assigned to 7th Engineer Support Battalion, 1st Marine Logistics Group, I Marine Expeditionary Force, Camp Pendleton, Calif.; attached to 2nd Force Service Support Group, II MEF (Forward); killed Nov. 1 by an improvised explosive device while conducting combat operations near Ramadi, Iraq.

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Honolulu Marine killed in Iraq

By Alexandre Da Silva

The Associated Press

HONOLULU — A Marine who left the University of Hawaii-Hilo in the late 1990s to pursue a military career was killed in Iraq on Nov. 1.

Sgt. Daniel A. Tsue, 27, who joined the Marine Corps in 1998, died after a homemade bomb exploded during combat operations near Ar Ramadi, the Pentagon said.

“He was a good kid,” said his uncle, Wayne Tsue. “He was doing something that he loved.”

“When he left to the Marines, he never came back,” Tsue said.

Daniel Tsue was described by his uncle as “a very kind, very considerate” person who grew up on Moanalua and graduated from Kahuku High School.

Tsue, an explosive ordnance disposal technician, briefly attended UH-Hilo before joining the military, his uncle said.

Tsue was based at Camp Pendleton, Calif., with the 7th Engineer Support Battalion, 1st Marine Logistics Group, 1st Marine Expeditionary Force.

His unit was attached in Iraq to the 2nd Force Service Support Group, II Marine Expeditionary Force.

“He put his whole heart into it,” Wayne Tsue said. “He was looked upon as being a very good leader.”

Daniel Tsue was the 44th Marine with island ties to be killed in Iraq.

As of Nov. 3, at least 2,037 members of the U.S. military have died since the beginning of the Iraq war in March 2003, according to an Associated Press count.