Posted at 1:41 p.m., Monday, January 30, 2006
Hawai'i-based Marine dies after roadside bomb attack
Advertiser Staff
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Lance Cpl. Billy D. Brixley Jr., assigned to Kane'ohe Bay's 1st Battalion, 3rd Marine Regiment, 3rd Marine Division, Marine Expeditionary Force, died at Landstuhl Regional Medical Center, Germany. He was among about 880 Marines and sailors with the 1st Battalion, 3rd Marine Regiment that left for Afghanistan in early January, eight months after ending their deployment to Iraq.
Brixley, of Ferriday, La., was traveling in a Marine convoy when the IED attack occurred.
