{"id":850,"date":"2019-01-02T18:40:25","date_gmt":"2019-01-03T01:40:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/deamaltzchallenge.com\/?p=850"},"modified":"2019-01-03T19:42:40","modified_gmt":"2019-01-04T02:42:40","slug":"marine-staff-sgt-adam-l-perkins","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maltzchallenge.com\/index.php\/2019\/01\/02\/marine-staff-sgt-adam-l-perkins\/","title":{"rendered":"Marine Staff Sgt. Adam L. Perkins"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Marine Staff Sgt. Adam L. Perkins <\/h1>\n\n\n\n

Died May 17, 2010 Serving During Operation Enduring Freedom<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
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\n\t\t27, of Antelope, Calif.; assigned to 7th Engineer Support Battalion, \n1st Marine Logistics Group, I Marine Expeditionary Force, Camp \nPendleton, Calif.; died May 17 at Forward Operating Base Edinburgh, \nAfghanistan, while supporting combat operations in Helmand province.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Marine from Sacramento County dies in Afghanistan <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Associated Press<\/p>\n\n\n\n

SACRAMENTO, Calif. \u2014 A Marine from Sacramento County has died from injuries suffered when a bomb went off in Afghanistan.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Defense\n Department officials say Staff Sgt. Adam Perkins died Monday. The \n27-year-old explosive ordnance disposal technician was injured in the \nHelmand province.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Perkins was assigned to the 1st Marine Logistics Group based at Camp Pendleton.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

He was on his third tour of duty, the first two served in Iraq.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Perkins\n was a 2001 graduate of Center High School in the community of Antelope.\n English teacher Paul Frazee, a Vietnam veteran who keeps in contact \nwith Center High alumni in the military, says he remembers Perkins as a \nfine student who was an Eagle Scout and an active member of his church.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Perkins is survived by a wife and baby.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Loved spending time with son, wife<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Associated Press<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Before he left for Afghanistan, Adam Perkins read books on video to his 9-month-old son so he wouldn\u2019t forget him.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Perkins, a bomb technician, knew his job was dangerous, but he wanted a challenge, his mother said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cHe was very big on safety. Don\u2019t think for a minute he was not cautious,\u201d said his mother, Laureen Myers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Perkins, 27, of Antelope, Calif., was killed May 17 in Helmand province, Afghanistan. He was assigned to Camp Pendleton, Calif.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cHe\n was defusing a roadside bomb, and there was a second detonation,\u201d Myers\n said, her voice shaking as she told The Modesto (Calif.) Bee it wasn\u2019t a\n mistake that caused her son\u2019s death.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Myers said Perkins most \nenjoyed being with his wife and son. He was seen as a serious man, but \nhis son made him smile, Myers said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cAdam was a hero,\u201d said his stepfather, Bill Myers. \u201cWhat he did saved countless lives, both military and civilian.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Perkins\n attended Center High School in Antelope. He enlisted in the Marines a \nweek after the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks. In a nine-year military \ncareer, he earned a Navy and Marine Corps Commendation Medal, an Iraq \nCampaign Medal, and other commendations.\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Marine Staff Sgt. Adam L. Perkins Died May 17, 2010 Serving During Operation Enduring Freedom 27, of Antelope, Calif.; assigned to 7th Engineer Support Battalion, 1st Marine Logistics Group, I Marine Expeditionary Force, Camp Pendleton, Calif.; died May 17 at Forward Operating Base Edinburgh, Afghanistan, while supporting combat operations in Helmand province. Marine from Sacramento […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-850","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-2019honorees"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maltzchallenge.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/850","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/maltzchallenge.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/maltzchallenge.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maltzchallenge.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maltzchallenge.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=850"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/maltzchallenge.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/850\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":906,"href":"https:\/\/maltzchallenge.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/850\/revisions\/906"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maltzchallenge.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=850"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maltzchallenge.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=850"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maltzchallenge.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=850"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}