AGE:  25

HOMETOWN:  Girard, Kansas

UNIT:  Marine Light/Attack Helicopter Squadron-169, Marine Aircraft Group-39, 3rd Marine
Aircraft Wing, I Marine Expeditionary Force

DUTY STATION:  Camp Pendleton, California

DIED:  May 30, 2006

LOCATION OF INCIDENT:  near Taqaddum, Iraq

CAUSE:  non-hostile helicopter accident May 27, 2006