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Name: Marine Capt. Tyler B. Swisher
Age: 35
From: Cincinnati, Ohio
Assigned to the 2nd Battalion, 2nd Marine Regiment, 2nd Marine Division, II Marine Expeditionary Force, Camp Lejeune, N.C.
Incident: Marine Capt. Tyler B. Swisher was killed Oct. 21 when his vehicle was struck by an improvised explosive device while conducting combat operations against enemy forces near Amariyah, Iraq. His vehicle was traveling beside a canal when the attack occurred and he was thrown from the vehicle into the water. Also
Died:
October
21, 2005
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Swisher remembered as a ‘Marine’s Marine’
By Dan Sewell
Associated Press
CINCINNATI — Capt. Tyler B. Swisher, who put in extra effort to become a successful student and then a U.S. Marine officer, was killed by a roadside bomb in Iraq, the Defense Department said Wednesday.
Swisher, 35, of Cincinnati, was killed last Friday in Al Anbar Province, military officials said. Cpl. Gray Cockerham III of North Carolina also was killed by the explosion that threw them from their vehicle into a canal, where remains were eventually recovered as fighting continued in the area.
Swisher, the 94th Ohioan killed in the Iraq war, is survived by a wife and three children who live in the Camp Lejeune, N.C., area. His parents live in eastern Cincinnati.
“I’ve always heard that expression ‘a Marine’s Marine.’ That was Tyler Swisher,” said Jack Buchholz, a longtime family friend serving as the...
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Prayers & Condolences For:
Tyler B. Swisher
BY DONNYDO on Mar 08, 2006 | |  | O God, by whose mercy the faithful departed find rest, look kindly on Your departed veteran, Marine Capt. Tyler B. Swisherwho, who gave his life in the service of his country. Grant that through the passion, death, and resurrection of Your Son he may share in the joy of Your heavenly kingdom and rejoice in You with Your saints forever.
I ask this through Christ our Lord.
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