Christopher M. Poston, 20

Based in California

Marines, Lance Corporal
Based: Camp Pendleton
Battalion Landing Team 2nd Battalion, 1st Marine Regiment, 13th Marine Expeditionary Unit, I Marine Expeditionary Force
Supporting: Operation Iraqi Freedom
Died: October 17, 2005
Hit, Iraq
Gender: Male
Hometown: Glendale, Ariz.

Poston was killed in a nonhostile vehicle accident in Hit, on the Euphrates River.