Florida grieves for fallen sons............7............ Reservists

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Florida grieves for fallen sons


http://www.orlandosentinel.com/news/local/state/orl-asecfladead05050504may05,0,6802034.story?coll=orl-home-headlines


Five Navy reservists who died Sunday in a mortar attack in one of the deadliest corners of Iraq were all Floridians, the Navy said Tuesday.

The deaths of the five sailors, three of them from Central Florida, and of an Army officer from the Panhandle who died in a separate attack the same day, marked the deadliest single day for Florida troops since the war in Iraq began. At least 35 Florida troops have died in Iraq.

The dead identified Tuesday were Navy Petty Officers Trace W. Dossett, 37, of Orlando, Michael C. Anderson, 36, of Daytona Beach, Ronald A. Ginther, 37, of Auburndale, Scott R. McHugh, 33, of Boca Raton and Robert B. Jenkins, 35, of Stuart, as well as Army Capt. John E. Tipton, 32, of Fort Walton Beach.

The five sailors were part of Navy Mobile Construction Battalion 14, a reserve unit based in Jacksonville and made up of sailors from Florida, south Georgia and Puerto Rico. Better known as "Seabees," about 400 of the battalion's 700 sailors were in Iraq on a humanitarian mission to repair roads, bridges and water and power plants.

The Navy said the sailors were killed when a mortar round landed in their compound at Camp Fallujah in Al Anbar province west of Baghdad, a hotbed of anti-U.S. insurgency where Marine units, to which the Seabees are attached, have battled guerrillas for weeks.

Tipton died in an explosion during combat in Al Anbar province, the Army said.
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Two other Seabees from the same battalion, Petty Officer 2nd Class Jason B. Dwelley, 31, of Apopka, and Petty Officer 3rd Class Christopher M. Dickerson, 33, of Eastman, Ga., were killed Friday when their convoy was attacked by rocket fire.


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1. Purged by another Bush.

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2. Where Marines go, Seabees follow.

May God bless you Bees.