DOD Identifies Marine and Navy Casualties
The Department of Defense announced today the deaths of two service members who were supporting Operation Enduring Freedom.
They died Aug. 17 while supporting combat operations in Farah province, Afghanistan. They were assigned to 3rd Marine Special Operations Battalion, Camp Lejeune, N.C.
Killed were:
Staff Sgt. Gregory T. Copes, 36, of Lynch Station, Va., and
Hospital Corpsman Petty Officer 1st Class Darrel L. Enos, 36, of Colorado Springs, Colo.
This incident is under investigation.
For additional information, news media representatives may contact U.S. Marine Corps Forces Special Operations Command public affairs office at 910-440-0770 or 910-440-0771.
The Department of Defense announced today the deaths of two service members who were supporting Operation Enduring Freedom.
They died Aug. 17 while supporting combat operations in Farah province, Afghanistan. They were assigned to 3rd Marine Special Operations Battalion, Camp Lejeune, N.C.
Killed were:
Staff Sgt. Gregory T. Copes, 36, of Lynch Station, Va., and
Hospital Corpsman Petty Officer 1st Class Darrel L. Enos, 36, of Colorado Springs, Colo.
This incident is under investigation.
For additional information, news media representatives may contact U.S. Marine Corps Forces Special Operations Command public affairs office at 910-440-0770 or 910-440-0771.
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COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. (CBS4) – A Colorado Springs family is mourning the life of a loved one killed in action in Afghanistan.
Serviceman Darrel Enos died just before he was scheduled to return home. He was fatally shot by a man he was training.
Enos was a husband, father, twin brother and son to his mother Patricia Loren.
“Darrel was very proud to be serving his country always, always, but it’s such a needless loss,” Loren said.
Enos was killed by an Afghan he was working to train. He was in the Navy, working on a Marine battalion training Afghan police recruits. The official report states that one of those recruits turned his gun on his trainers, killing Enos. It was his fifth tour.
“I think that nobody should have to deploy that many times,” Loren said.
“I just hate that he’s gone. I never thought it would happen to Darrel,” brother Dale Enos said.
Enos’ family in Colorado Springs had high hopes of seeing him return home soon. He was heading back in just one week. Instead he died doing what he loved.
“Darrel always loved to help people. That’s what he thought he was doing over there,” Dale Enos said.
Stories like Enos’ are happening more and more in recent days in Afghanistan. His family just wants him remembered as the hero he was, killed in action.
Loren is headed to Delaware to meet his casket. He’ll be honored at Marine Corps Camp Lejeune in North Carolina and then later in Colorado Springs.
Serviceman Darrel Enos died just before he was scheduled to return home. He was fatally shot by a man he was training.
Enos was a husband, father, twin brother and son to his mother Patricia Loren.
“Darrel was very proud to be serving his country always, always, but it’s such a needless loss,” Loren said.
Enos was killed by an Afghan he was working to train. He was in the Navy, working on a Marine battalion training Afghan police recruits. The official report states that one of those recruits turned his gun on his trainers, killing Enos. It was his fifth tour.
“I think that nobody should have to deploy that many times,” Loren said.
“I just hate that he’s gone. I never thought it would happen to Darrel,” brother Dale Enos said.
Enos’ family in Colorado Springs had high hopes of seeing him return home soon. He was heading back in just one week. Instead he died doing what he loved.
“Darrel always loved to help people. That’s what he thought he was doing over there,” Dale Enos said.
Stories like Enos’ are happening more and more in recent days in Afghanistan. His family just wants him remembered as the hero he was, killed in action.
Loren is headed to Delaware to meet his casket. He’ll be honored at Marine Corps Camp Lejeune in North Carolina and then later in Colorado Springs.
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DALE- If you ever read this , I am so very sorry to hear what happend to your twin brother :(
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