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Names of the four US Marines who died in yesterday's helicopter crash: Maj. Jay Thomas Aubin, 36, of Waterville, Maine Capt. Ryan Anthony Beaupre, 30, of Bloomington, Ill. Cpl. Brian Matthew Kennedy, 25, of Houston, Texas Staff Sgt. Kendall Damon Watersbey, 29, of Baltimore, Md. The Pentagon has just released the names of two more US Marines who were killed in Iraq. I'll post as soon as I find that.

I received word today that my cousin was killed in an aircraft accident in Iraq. A Marine Captain, he was a helicopter pilot and a wonderful man. I last saw him in Kuwait as I waited to board a helo to return to my ship. God Bless Andrew and his family and, God Bless America!

Family holds out some hope EUREKA -- A Eureka serviceman may have been one of at least four U.S. Marines killed Monday in a transport helicopter crash in Central Iraq near Karbala. If that is the case, it would be Humboldt County's first reported casualty of the war in Iraq. But family members here say they haven't given up hope that he may have survived. Marine Capt. Andrew La Mont, 32, a Eureka native who during the Iraq war flew wounded servicemen to hospitals in Kuwait, has been listed as missing by the Marines. He was aboard the Marine CH-46...

<p>SAN FRANCISCO (AP) - A Marine captain with a passion for flying and a lance corporal with dreams of becoming a Camp Pendleton instructor were among a group of Marines who died when a transport helicopter crashed in central Iraq.</p>