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Published: Monday, February 20, 2012

Megan M. McClung

Marine Maj. Megan M. McClung, 34, died Dec. 6, 2006, while supporting combat operations in Anbar province and was escorting media when she was killed. McClung, who has family in the Coupeville area, was the first woman Marine officer to be killed in Iraq since the war started. Unmarried, she was in the final month of a yearlong deployment to Iraq. She joined the Marine Corps in 1995 after graduating from the U.S. Naval Academy. She was nominated to the academy in 1989 while attending Mission Viejo High School in California.
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