A Marine infantry officer from the Camp Pendleton has been killed during the combat operations in the Helmand province, Afghanistan, the Department of the Defense announced on Wednesday.
Second Lt. Robert Kelly, 29, of Tallahassee, Fla., was killed on Tuesday by a roadside bomb while on foot patrol. He was assigned to the 3rd Battalion, 5th Regiment, 1st Marine Division, 1st Marine Expeditionary Force at Camp Pendleton.
Kelly, commissioned in the December 2008, was on his third combat deployment.
Twenty-three Marines from Camp Pendleton have been killed in Afghanistan since late July.
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