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Cpl. Carlos Arellano
Pendleton Marine from Rosemead killed in Iraq
ROSEMEAD -- A Camp Pendleton Marine from Rosemead on his third tour of duty in Iraq was killed in an insurgent suicide attack, it was reported Thursday.
Marine Cpl. Carlos Arellano, 22, had survived two previous tours of duty in Iraq, although he was wounded on the second, his brother, Robert Arellano, told the San Gabriel Valley Tribune.The Pentagon, which identified him as Carlos Arrelanopandura, said he died Friday when a suicide bomber in a vehicle set off an explosion in Haqlaniyah.
Lance Cpl. Brandon Dewey, 20, of San Joaquin, was also killed in the explosion.
Both were assigned to 3rd Battalion, 1st Marine Regiment, 1st Marine Division, I Marine Expeditionary Force, out of Camp Pendleton. Their unit was attached to the 2nd Marine Division, II Marine Expeditionary Force (Forward).
Arellano joined the Marines in 2003, after graduating from Mark Keppel High School in Alhambra. He saw combat during all three tours, winning a merit promotion during his second tour for killing an insurgent aiming a rocket- propelled grenade out of a hotel window, his brother told the newspaper.
"I think Carlos knew he was going to die this time," Robert Arellano, a Marine of nine years, told the newspaper.
He joined the Marines to get the training for a job as a SWAT officer for the Los Angeles Police Department, another brother, Marco Arellano, told the newspaper.
Arellano was born in Mexico and grew up in Rosemead. He attended Emerson Elementary School and Garvey Intermediate School.
He is survived by his brothers and his father, Robert Arellano Sr., and mother, Emelia Arellano.
Arellano was scheduled to return from Iraq in March and to be discharged in June. He had planned to attend college and study criminal justice, according to the newspaper.
Funeral arrangements are pending.