Travis L. Youngblood
Died: July 21, 2005
Rank: Hospital Corpsman 3rd Class
Unit: 2nd Marine Division, II Marine Expeditionary Force (Forward)
Branch: U.S. Navy
Hospital Corpsman Third Class Travis L. Youngblood, a 26-year-old Navy Corpsman assigned to the Naval Hospital Great Lakes in Great Lakes, Illinois, lost his life on July 21, 2005, from wounds received on July 15, 2005. Youngblood was conducting combat operations in Hit, Iraq, when he was struck by shrapnel from an improvised explosive device. He was in Iraq fighting alongside and tending to the Marines of the 2nd Marine Division, II Marine Expeditionary Force (Forward) supporting Operation Iraqi Freedom. Youngblood received a hero’s burial when he was laid to rest in Arlington National Cemetery, Arlington, Virginia, on August 1, 2005, just eight weeks before the birth of his daughter.
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