Washington Woman Killed By Suicide Bomber In Iraq (18-year-old son)

[sabra]

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http://www.koin.com/news.asp?RECORD_KEY%5Bnews%5D=ID&ID%5Bnews%5D=3214

Washington Woman Killed By Suicide Bomber In Iraq


Navy Reservist On Second Tour Of Duty

CENTRALIA, Wash. -- A naval reserve officer from Washington has been killed by a suicide bomber in Iraq.
Regina Clark's family says the reservist was working in Fallujah Thursday night when the bomber ambushed her convoy. At least five Americans were killed in the attack.

Clark had been in the Navy for 22 years and was on her second tour of duty. Her family says she loved what she was doing and where her life was going.

She was the first person from Lewis County to die in Iraq.

She is survived by an 18-year-old son.



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[Roland99]

1. "naval reserve"

Why was a naval reserve officer in Falluja?

[leftchick]

2. she was supposed to be working in a mess hall

but they transferred her to Fallujah for female searches at checkpoints. Nice, eh? :(

[Roland99]

3. Ah. I can understand that need. But...

Wouldn't Barbara and Jenna be useful for something like that?

[Rose Siding]

4. Navy medics deploy with Marines

She could have been a corpsman. I have a daughter who came close to taking that job.

[leftchick]

5. she wasn't a medic

they were going to use her for female searches at checkpoints. I believe her real job was in a mess hall. :(

more about her here...

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=104x3957336#3957488

[Skittles]

7. I heard she was a nurse

you are correct that she was part of a group of females needed to search native women at checkpoints

[Skittles]

6. I know a Naval Reserve guy in Mosul

one day he's working in Telecom in a cube, a couple weeks later he is in Baghdad and I get emails saying sorry you haven't heard from me in a while but mortars knocked out the internet cafe. He is 41. No one is escaping the carnage.

[pretzel4gore]

8. meanwhile the scotus says developers can take anyone's home

lol

[Straight Shooter]

9. koin certainly sanitized the truth of this attack

"At least five Americans were killed in the attack."

IIRC, five female Marines were killed in the attack which killed Ms. Clark. There's a big difference in perception to Mom and Pop at home between the words "Americans" and "female Marines" (or "women Marines").