A Marine from a Camp Pendleton unit killed in Afghanistan has been buried in his native Utah.
Lance Cpl. Nigel Kenton Olsen, 21, was killed March 4 by a roadside bomb in Helmand Province. Olsen, a reservist, was attached to the 4th Light Armored Reconnaissance Battalion with headquarters at Camp Pendleton.
"He was doing what he loved," Olsen’s mother, Kim Olsen, said at Saturday’s burial in Salem, Utah. "It was the Lord’s time."
— Tony Perry in San Diego
Photo: Kim J. Black Olsen hugs the flag presented to her during the burial of her son, Lance Cpl. Nigel Kenton Olsen, at Salem City Cemetery in Utah. Credit: Jason Olson / Deseret News