Cpl. Adam Lipford, of Madisonville, Louisiana was a student at Ponchatoula High School when he decided to enlist in the Marine Corps, and he eventually earned his general equivalency diploma while involved in military training. Upon graduating from high school he entered boot camp followed by tank school. He was named an honor graduate and was meritoriously promoted to to lance corporal. He was deployed in support of Operation Bright Star where he once again won the meritorious Corporal Board. His other military missions and achievements include qualifying with distinguished marks during gunnery exercise, serving in Operation Sweeney, leading a fire team plus of non-infantry in Exercise Edged Mallet in which he worked closely with the Kenya Military, and Iraqi Freedom. His military decorations include the Good Conduct Medal in addition to the Navy and Marine Corps Achievement Medal. On cold, wet nights in the field during workups and the deployment, Adam would cheer and entertain his platoon with tales of crawfish-eating back in his native Louisiana. He kept the whole platoon going, and he was the glue that held them all together. He died when the M1A1 tank he was riding in fell off a U.S. Navy LCAC and sank in Apra Harbor as it was being transported from the tank washdown site to the GERMANTOWN. His body was recovered and was escorted back to Louisiana by members of his platoon. The ships of Expeditionary Strike Group One are on their way back to the United States and was scheduled to return to southern California around mid-March.
Marines
Bravo Company,
1st Tank Battalion
29 Palms, California
Marines
Bravo Company,
1st Tank Battalion
29 Palms, California
Cpl. Adam Lipford, of Madisonville, Louisiana was a student at Ponchatoula High School when he decided to enlist in the Marine Corps, and he eventually earned his general equivalency diploma while involved in military training. Upon graduating from high school he entered boot camp followed by tank school. He was named an honor graduate and was meritoriously promoted to to lance corporal. He was deployed in support of Operation Bright Star where he once again won the meritorious Corporal Board. His other military missions and achievements include qualifying with distinguished marks during gunnery exercise, serving in Operation Sweeney, leading a fire team plus of non-infantry in Exercise Edged Mallet in which he worked closely with the Kenya Military, and Iraqi Freedom. His military decorations include the Good Conduct Medal in addition to the Navy and Marine Corps Achievement Medal. On cold, wet nights in the field during workups and the deployment, Adam would cheer and entertain his platoon with tales of crawfish-eating back in his native Louisiana. He kept the whole platoon going, and he was the glue that held them all together. He died when the M1A1 tank he was riding in fell off a U.S. Navy LCAC and sank in Apra Harbor as it was being transported from the tank washdown site to the GERMANTOWN. His body was recovered and was escorted back to Louisiana by members of his platoon. The ships of Expeditionary Strike Group One are on their way back to the United States and was scheduled to return to southern California around mid-March.
Marines
Bravo Company,
1st Tank Battalion
29 Palms, California
Marines
Bravo Company,
1st Tank Battalion
29 Palms, California
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