Zarion Wood

Died: May 16, 2010

Rank: Hospital Corpsman 3rd Class

Unit: Third Battalion, First Marine Regiment, First Marine Division, I Marine Expeditionary Force

Branch: U.S. Navy

Hospital Corpsman 3rd Class Zarion Wood, 29, died May 16, 2010, in Bagram, Afghanistan, of wounds sustained in a blast from an improvised explosive device while on mounted patrol in Helmand province. Having worked as a youth pastor and tutor for troubled kids in his hometown of Houston, Texas, Wood hoped to study radiology and eventually become a dentist.