Navy Department Honors

The 2nd Battalion,3rd Marine Regiment,3rd Marine Division,3rd Marine Expeditionary Force,sustained a number of losses in Afghanistan in early August.Killed in action in Farah Province were Petty Officer 3rd Class Anthony C. Garcia,21,of Panama City,Florida,a Navy hospital corpsman who died on 5 August;Lance Corporal Travis T. Babine,20,of San Antonio,Texas;Lance Corporal James D. Argentine,22,of Farmingdale,New York;and Sargent Jay M. Hoskins,24,of Paris,Texas-all of whom died on 6 August.The 2nd Battalion,3rd Marine Regiment is based in Kaneohe Bay,Hawaii.
As of last Thursday,776 Defense Department personnel,including one civilian,had died in the Afghan War,536 of them in combat.