Both Marines were members of the 3rd Light Armored Reconnaissance Battalion in Twentynine Palms, Calif.
Adam Galvez, a mechanic who learned to turn wrenches when he was boy in Salt Lake City, aided in the upkeep of Humvees, 7-ton trucks and Light Armored Vehicles, all of which take a hard beating on the region's often treacherous roads.
"I bought a car from a junkyard and got it running before I joined the Corps," Galvez told a Marine Corps combat correspondant in April.
"I have tinkered with cars all my life."
Galvez had been was injured in a suicide bombing that killed four Marines last month in Rawah, Iraq. No further details on the attack that claimed his life were immediately available.
