A 19-year-old Marine from Virginia was killed by enemy fire while fighting in Afghanistan, the Pentagon said.
Cody S. Childers, a 2009 graduate of Grassfield High School in Chesapeake, was hit by enemy gunfire and died in Helmand province Friday, the Pentagon said. He reported for training in August 2009 and deployed about two months later from Camp Lejeune.
The Pentagon said Childers was assigned to the 2nd Marine Division in the 2nd Marine Expeditionary Force.
He left behind his parents, a brother and sister.
Childers was the second Virginian deployed in Afghanistan to be killed during combat last week.
On Wednesday, highly decorated Navy SEAL Collin Trent Thomas was shot and killed in eastern Afghanistan. The 33-year-old chief special warfare operator had been deployed in Afghanistan and Iraq since 2001.
