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  • Marine Killed In Iraq Awarded Navy Cross

    06/05/2007 10:29:57 AM PDT · by RDTF · 30 replies · 1,472+ views
    LA Times ^ | June 5, 2007 | Tony Perry
    CAMP PENDLETON — More than 140,000 Marines have served in Iraq or Afghanistan since the Sept. 11 attacks. Only 18 have received the Navy Cross, second only to the Medal of Honor for combat bravery. On Monday, the family of the 18th recipient, Cpl. Jason S. Clairday, gathered to receive his posthumous award and to hear the young man, who was 21 when he died, remembered as one "who set the standard for others to follow." Clairday was awarded the Navy Cross for leading Marines in storming an insurgent stronghold in Fallouja in December 2004 to support Marines pinned down...