AGE:  20

HOMETOWN:  Ogdensburg, N.Y.

UNIT:  Marine Heavy Helicopter Squadron 464, Marine Air Group 29, 2nd Marine Aircraft Wing, II Marine Expeditionary Force, deployed to Djibouti as part of the Combined Joint Task Force-Horn of Africa

DUTY STATION:  New River, N.C.

DIED:  February 17, 2006

LOCATION OF INCIDENT:  Godoria Range area

CAUSE:  while flying a training mission, two CH-53 helicopters crashed into the Gulf of Aden in the vicinity of Ras Siyyan, northern Djibouti

BURIED:  5/25/06 full military honors in Ogdensburg