Ryley Gallinger Long of Cornelius, OR is remembered in the Liberty Unites archive.
Age
19
Home
Cornelius, OR
Occupation
1st Battalion, 6th Marines, Regimental Combat Team 1, 2nd Marine Division, II Marine Expeditionary Force at Camp Lejeune, N.C.
Memorial
US Navy
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A LIFE REMEMBERED
We speak the name.
Navy Hospitalman Ryley Gallinger-Long
died Aug. 11 in Marjah district, Helmand province, Afghanistan, while conducting a dismounted patrol.
Sailor from Oregon killed in Afghanistan
The Associated Press
FOREST GROVE, Ore. &mdash The body of an Oregon sailor who was killed while serving as a medic with the Marines in Afghanistan arrived Saturday at Dover Air Force Base for transfer to Forest Grove where his funeral will be held.
Ryley Gallinger-Long will be buried in Willamette National Cemetery.
The 19-year-old hospitalman from Cornelius was killed Thursday. His brother Zack Gallinger-Long of Hillsboro told The Oregonian he was shot while tending to a wounded Marine.
Ryley Gallinger-Long was a 2010 graduate of Forest Grove High School who married his high school sweetheart in March. He was assigned to a Marine unit at Camp Lejeune, North Carolina.
PRAYERS & CONDOLENCES
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May the grace of God, the love of Jesus, and the peace of the Holy Spirit be with you and your family forever.