Megan M. McClung, 34

Marines, Major

Based: Camp Pendleton

1st Marine Expeditionary Force Headquarters Group, I Marine Expeditionary Force

Supporting: Operation Iraqi Freedom

Died: December 6, 2006

Ramadi, Iraq

Single

Gender: Female

Hometown: Coupeville, Wash.

High School: Mission Viejo High (Mission Viejo)

Burial: Arlington National Cemetery, Arlington, Va.

She could not simply enter a room. She bounced and bounded in, ready to meet anyone and anything with an optimistic tenacity that intimidated some, but inspired many.

— Fellow officer, quoted in "A Soldier's Dream" by William Doyle

McClung was killed when a roadside bomb exploded near her Humvee in Ramadi, west of Baghdad. The public affairs officer, who was escorting reporters in a convoy, was the first female Marine officer to be killed in the war. McClung was born in Hawaii, but grew up in Orange County, Calif. where she attended high school.

Times obituary

L.A. Now: In Afghanistan, troops run to honor Marine from Orange County

« Micah S. Gifford, 12/07/2006

Jeffrey G. Roberson, 11/28/2006 »

One memory of Megan M. McClung

God bless you and your scarifice for our beliefs. May you always be remembered, We will stand strong for you!!

— Bill Davison

October 3, 2011 at 7:02 a.m.

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