Based: Camp Lejeune, N.C.
1st Battalion, 8th Marines, 2nd Marine Division, II Marine Expeditionary Force
Supporting: Operation Iraqi Freedom
Died: November 27, 2004
Fallouja, Iraq
Single
Gender: Male
Hometown: Napa
High School: Poolesville High School (Poolesville, Md.)
Foreign Country of Birth: Canada
Burial: Cremated
There was no such thing as half speed for Marine Cpl. Kirk J. Bosselmann.Read the entire LA Times article about Marine Corporal Kirk J. Bosselmann here; find a message from his mother here and a memory of a friend here.
After he graduated in 2001 from Poolesville High School in Maryland, he traveled by train to California to jump out of airplanes to fight fires. And after joining the Marine Corps, he worked his way onto a sniper squadron, drawing on a childhood spent hunting game in the deep woods of Maryland's rural Montgomery County.
Quiet and confident, the former lacrosse player also learned to surf and ride a rodeo bull somewhere along the line.
"When dealing with him, you learned to not let anything surprise you," said Montgomery County firefighter Joe Brown, a longtime friend of the 21-year-old Marine, who was killed in combat Nov. 27 while fighting insurgents near the Iraqi town of Fallouja.
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