McCollum said her brother wanted to be a history teacher and a wrestling coach once he completed his service. Sometimes it would be with nothing on underneath, just a T-shirt.” He’d carry around his toy rifle and wear his sister’s pink princess snow boots and he’d either be hunting or he was a Marine. She said her brother “was a Marine before he knew he was allowed to be a Marine. “He was so excited to be a dad, and he was going to be a great dad,” McCollum said. Rylee McCollum, a Marine and native of Bondurant, Wyoming, was married and his wife is expecting a baby in three weeks, his sister, Cheyenne McCollum, said. The war stories, the losses, the flag-draped coffins, the KIA bracelets & the heartbreak. Gee’s car was still parked in a lot at Camp Lejeune, and Harrison mused about all the Marines who walked past it while she was overseas. Harrison said her generation of Marines hears war stories from veterans of the Iraq and Afghanistan conflicts, but they seem distant until “the peaceful float you were on turns into … your friends never coming home.” One from this month in Kuwait shows her beaming with her meritorious promotion to sergeant. Photos show her on a camel in Saudi Arabia, in a bikini on a Greek isle and holding a beer in Spain. She wrote: “escorting evacuees onto the bird.” Gee’s Instagram page shows another photo of her in fatigues, holding a rifle next to a line of people walking into the belly of a large transport plane. “How her last breath was taken doing what she loved - helping people. “I can’t quite describe the feeling I get when I force myself to come back to reality & think about how I’m never going to see her again,” Harrison wrote on Facebook. Mallory Harrison, who lived with Gee for three years, wrote about how hard the death hit her. Poole III, commanding general of 2nd Marine Logistics Group, said his unit mourned “the immense loss of Sgt. Gee, 23, of Sacramento, California, was a maintenance technician with the 24th Marine Expeditionary Unit from Camp Lejeune in North Carolina.īrig. She posted the photo on Instagram and wrote, “I love my job.” Nicole Gee cradled a baby in her arms at the Kabul airport.
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