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Megan M. McClung
1972–2006
Major
Public affairs plans officer, I Marine Expeditionary Force; volunteered for duty with 1st Brigade Combat Team, 1st Armored Division (Ramadi, Al Anbar Province, Iraq; killed 6 December 2006)
Documented decorations
Purple Heart
Named in VA #VeteranOfTheDay (25 Apr 2019) among career medals. Do not invent an oak-leaf count.
Public sources
Bronze Star Medal
Named as the Bronze Star in the same VA #VeteranOfTheDay profile. Do not invent a Combat “V” or oak-leaf count without a matching official device list on this page.
Public sources
Megan M. McClung’s Bronze Star and Purple Heart are named in the Department of Veterans Affairs’ #VeteranOfTheDay profile of her Marine Corps service. This decorations page records those two types from that VA list. It will not invent a Silver Star or place Navy/Marine Corps Commendation Medal chips on this awards row.
A Naval Academy graduate commissioned in 1995, McClung served as a public affairs officer ashore and later deployed with I MEF to Al Anbar. In the final month of that tour she volunteered for duty with an Army brigade combat team in Ramadi. On December 6, 2006, an improvised explosive device struck her Humvee while she was escorting media, killing her and two other service members. The VA profile is the published official naming of the Bronze Star and Purple Heart used here.
She is not yet on a war-roll essay. Arlington National Cemetery burial, and the public fact that she was the first female Marine officer killed in Operation Iraqi Freedom, are not printed here as medals.
This name is not yet on a war-roll essay. The decorations above are the documented public record this register will stand on until that essay is written.
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