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Brandon T. Lara

1988–2009

Lance Corporal

U.S. Marine Corps; 3rd Battalion, 4th Marine Regiment, 1st Marine Division, I MEF (Camp Pendleton); two combat tours, Operation Iraqi Freedom; KIA Anbar Province, Iraq, 19 Jul 2009

Documented decorations

Brandon T. Lara’s Bronze Star Medal and Purple Heart are named in the Department of Veterans Affairs’ #VeteranOfTheDay profile of his Marine Corps service in Iraq. This decorations page records those two types from that VA sentence. It will not invent a Combat “V” or an oak-leaf tally the paragraph does not carry.

Born 7 October 1988 and raised in New Braunfels, Texas, Lara enlisted after turning eighteen in 2006, finished high school early to begin boot camp, and was assigned to 3rd Battalion, 4th Marines at Camp Pendleton. He volunteered for two combat tours in Iraq and was killed in action on 19 July 2009 while supporting combat operations in Anbar Province. He is interred at Fort Sam Houston National Cemetery. The Bronze Star Medal and Purple Heart are the published decoration names here.

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