Joseph Menusa

Gunnery Sergeant Joseph Menusa (1970-2003) was a member of the First Combat Engineer Battalion, 1st. Marine Division of the United States Marine Corps. A former resident of Tracy, California, Menusa was the first soldier from the Philippines to lose his life on the 2003 Iraq War when he was killed on March 27 at Nasiriya.

He graduated from a high school in San Jose, where he had grown up, in 1989, and soon after, he joined the Marines.

Gunnery Sergeant Menusa was killed on the ninth anniversary of the day he began dating his wife Stacy. He was not a United States citizen, as he had failed to appear for his INS interview: He had been called to Hawaii on duty already.

Menusa had been stationed in many places around the world during his career with the Marines: He fought in the Gulf War, and he had been stationed in San Francisco, California, Cuba and Japan.

Menusa was survived by his wife, Stacy, 3 year old son Joshua, mother Virginia Kenny, step-father Michael Kenny and three brothers.

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