Based: Camp Pendleton
1st Battalion, 5th Marines, 1st Marine Division, I Marine Expeditionary Force
Supporting: Operation Iraqi Freedom
Died: August 3, 2005
Ramadi, Iraq
Engaged
Gender: Male
Hometown: Smartville
High School: Nevada Union High (Grass Valley)
I knew Adam since we both entered school of infantry about 2 weeks after we both graduated from boot camp. Ever since that day, due to the first letters of our last names being so close to one another, we had been roommates, rackmates, or hooch mates. He was intensely competitive when it came to matters of Marines, and a compassionate friend when the uniforms were set aside for the day. I spoke at his memorial in Ramadi and will stand up to one statement I said that day until I die - When we were on patrol and Lcpl. Strain was taking up last man in the formation, I felt completely secure in only concerning myself with threats from the front because he had my back. I have thought about him everyday since he was taken from us and he still influences decisions I make to this day. I live life the way he would have wanted us to, the way he would have, taking care of one another.Read more about Lance Corporal Adam J. Strain here.
— Kenneth Voiland, Sgt. USMC
July 29, 2008 at 1:35 p.m
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