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| A Battalion Landing Team 3/1 rifle detail fires a salute at a Feb. 17 memorial service aboard USS Makin Island honoring hospital corpsman Petty Officer 3rd Class Kyler L. Estrada, who died in a Djibouti training accident Feb. 14. Estrada, who served with the landing team's Company I, was 21 and a native of Maricopa, Ariz. Doc died in the company of his brothers, said company commander Capt. Matt McGirr. The landing team is the ground combat element for the 11th Marine Expeditionary Unit, deployed as part of the Makin Island Amphibious Ready Group to the U.S. Fifth Fleet area of responsibility. |
Military training is rigorous. A euphemism used at all Marine Corps School Houses for extremely difficult and challenging training. Being a Corpsman attached to a Marine Corps Unit opens you up to all those dangers.
God Bless you Doc.
i know we give most credit to the infantry and the front line people, and of course i am not minimizing their service, but this shows just how dangerous and important support troops really are, and i am sure he saved lives too if he was ever in a combat zone but dont know his deployment record, anyway my heart to his family and honor to see people like him serve! Semper Fi
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