The Defense Department has announced the death of Marine Lance Cpl. Nickolas A. Daniels of Elmwood Park, Illinois; Daniels died 5 Nov 11 while conducting combat operations in Helmand province, Afghanistan. The 25-year-old Daniels was assigned to 3rd Combat Engineer Battalion, 1st Marine Division, I Marine Expeditionary Force, Twentynine Palms, Calif.
Kati Daniels – his sister – told the Chicago Sun-Times that Daniels left home 4 Sep 11 for his first deployment as a combat engineer. She said the graduate of St. Patrick High School in Chicago decided to join the Marines because he believed it would help him become a police officer.
Kati Daniels said her brother went into the military to “change his life.”
Lance Cpl Daniels is the 1,831st American killed in Afghanistan … Ich hatt’ einen Kameraden
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