Camp Pendleton suffered the second greatest loss of troops in the Iraq War of any installation, according to numbers made available on iCasualties.org.
An estimated 345 servicemembers based at Camp Pendleton died during the war in Iraq. The first Marine from Pendleton to die was 2nd Lt. Therrel Shane Childers, 30, who was killed in southern Iraq from hostile fire on March 21, 2003 (read more).
