Bourgeois, Matthew Joseph
Navy Chief Hospital Corpsman

Matthew Joseph Bourgeois, age 35, from Tallahassee, Florida, Leon county.

Service era: Iraq
Military history: Dam Neck, Virginia

Date of death: Thursday, March 28, 2002
Death details: killed by land mine during training exercise near Kandahar, Afghanistan. Another SEAL was injured. The mine had apparently been planted by Taliban or al-Qaida forces before they fled the area in December 2000.

Source: Department of Defense, U.S. Navy, Military Times