21-year-old US Marine Lance-Corporal Nicholas S. O'Brien from Stanley, North Carolina was killed in Afghanistan 9th June 2011 while on combat duty. He had celebrated his 21st birthday two weeks ago.
L-Cpl. Nic O'Brien served with the 1st Battalion, 5th Marine Regiment, based at Camp Pendleton, California.
L-Cpl. Nic O'Brien served with the 1st Battalion, 5th Marine Regiment, based at Camp Pendleton, California.
His battalion had begun a seven-month rotation in Afghanistan at the end of March. He and his fellow Marines were on routine foot patrol near the town of Sangin, in Helmand Province, when a roadside bomb exploded and killed him, his father told news reporters.
L-Cpl. Nic O'Brien leaves his parents Richard and Tammy and sister Haley.