Thanks for the note on the sailor Ansell. Was he a Corpsman?
Yes, the sailor was a corpsman.
“KABUL — Navy medical corpsman James Layton, who was identified Thursday as one of those killed in an ambush in eastern Afghanistan, had been ministering to a wounded U.S. Marine on Tuesday when they came under a volley of insurgent bullets, killing them both and two more Marines, according to their comrades.”