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Two Marines Who Drowned Deemed Accident .c The Associated Press PEORIA, Ill. (AP) - The deaths of two Marines who drowned while crossing a canal in southeast Iraq were ruled accidental, a military official said Monday. The probe concluded there was no negligence by commanding officers in the deaths of Evan James of La Harpe and Sgt. Bradley Korthaus of Davenport, Iowa, said Gunnery Sgt. James Howard, a spokesman for their Peoria-based reserve unit. The investigation reclassified the deaths as occurring in a hostile environment. That indicates the Marines were under threat of war when they disappeared in the Saddam...

DAVENPORT, Iowa (AP) -- Scores of people, some waving flags, stood in a wet, heavy snow Monday along the funeral route for Marine Reserve Sgt. Bradley Korthaus, one of the first American casualties in Iraq. Some saluted and others held their hands over their hearts as the procession of 200 vehicles wound its way slowly through the city in a spring snowstorm. Police closed off intersections along the route to the national cemetery at Rock Island Arsenal, where Korthaus was to be buried with full military honors. Korthaus, 28, of Davenport drowned March 24 while crossing a canal in southeast...

  United States Department of DefenseNews ReleaseOn the web: http://www.defenselink.mil/news/Mar2003/b03292003_bt170-03.html Media contact: media@defenselink.mil or +1 (703) 697-5131 Public contact: public@defenselink.mil or +1 (703) 428-0711   No. 170-03 IMMEDIATE RELEASE March 29, 2003 DOD ANNOUNCES CHANGE IN MARINE CASUALTY STATUS The Department of Defense announced today it has changed the status of Marine Sgt. Bradley S. Korthaus from Duty Status Whereabouts Unknown (DUSTWUN) to killed in action. Sgt. Korthaus was declared DUSTWUN in the vicinity of the Saddam Canal on March 24. His remains were recovered on March 25. Sgt. Korthaus, 28, of Scott, Iowa, was assigned to Engineering Company...

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.