New York Marine dies of wounds from January attack in Afghanistan

U.S. Marine dies months after being injured in Afghanistan
5 APRIL 2012 SAN ANTONIO, TEXAS (BNO NEWS)
A U.S. Marine from New York who was critically injured in January when a suicide bomber attacked his patrol in southern Afghanistan has died at a military hospital in Texas, the U.S. Department of Defense confirmed on Thursday.

Corporal Christopher D. Bordoni, 21, of Ithaca, New York, was critically injured on January 18 when a suicide bomber attacked his patrol in Helmand province, located in southern Afghanistan. Bordoni was sent to a hospital in Germany before being transported to San Antonio Military Medical Center at Fort Sam Houston in Texas, where he died on Tuesday night.

Few details about the attack in January have been released by officials, but the U.S. Department of Defense earlier confirmed that 25-year-old Marine Corporal Phillip D. McGeath, of Glendale, Arizona, was killed in the same attack. They were both assigned to 1st Battalion, 6th Marine Regiment, 2nd Marine Division, II Marine Expeditionary Force at Camp Lejeune in North Carolina.

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