CAMP PENDLETON, Calif. The Department of Defense today says the first woman Marine officer has been killed in Iraq.Major Megan M. McClung, who was 34 and from Coupeville in Washington, died in Al Anbar province last week.
She was a public affairs officer based at Camp Pendleton; the military did not say how McClung died.
Three other female Marines have been killed in Iraq, according to the Defense Department's most recent numbers.
In all U-S military branches, 60 women have been killed.
