US service members with Nebraska connections killed in Iraq ‎

Nearly 150 Marines from 2nd Marine Logistics Group (Forward)'s 9th Engineer Support Battalion converged in the open Helmand.Bateman was one of two Marines killed Jan. 15 while supporting combat operations.He was assigned to the 9th Engineer Support Battalion, 3rd Marine.Combat engineers by trade, the Marines of 2nd Platoon, Alpha Company, 9th Engineer Support Battalion, 2nd Marine Logistics Group (Forward), are responsible.Lance Cpl. Kenneth E. Cochran, 20, of Wilder, Idaho was assigned to the 9th Engineer Support Battalion. Both died supporting combat operations in Helmand.Cpl. James Hernandez, a combat engineer with Alpha Company, 9th Engineer Support Battalion.He was part of the 6th Squadron, 9th Cavalry Regiment, 3rd Brigade Combat.He was in the 1st Combat Engineer Battalion, 1st Marine Division, 1st Marine.