Geovani Padilla Aleman

Died: April 2, 2006

Rank: Hospitalman

Unit: National Naval Medical Center, U.S. Naval Service Comfort Detachment

Branch: U.S. Navy

Hospital Corpsman Geovani Padilla Aleman, a Navy corpsman assigned to the Na­tional Naval Medical Center in Bethesda, Maryland, was killed on April 2, 2006, when a bomb exploded near the Humvee he was riding in while on patrol in Al Anbar Province west of Baghdad, Iraq. The 20-year-old was in Iraq with the United States Naval Service Comfort Detachment, providing medical care to the Marines of the 3rd Battalion, 8th Marine Regiment, 2/28 Brigade Combat Team. Padilla Aleman had been in Iraq for only a month at the time of his death. Family and friends said their final farewells on April 14, 2006, at the Rose Hill Memorial Chapel in Whittier, California, and he was buried at Rose Hill Memorial Park.