CPO Matthew Joseph Bourgeois
March 28th, 2002
Birth: January 18, 1967 – Tallahassee, Florida
Death: March 28, 2002 – Kandahar, Afghanistan
Chief Petty Officer Bourgeois was assigned to Little Creek Naval Amphibious Base, Virginia. He was killed in southern Afghanistan after stepping on a land mine while conducting a small unit-training mission at an abandoned al Qaeda base near the Kandahar airport. He served in the Florida National Guard from 1984 to 1987 before enlisting in the Navy. Matt initially trained as a Hospital Corpsman and began training with Navy SEAL Team 2 in the Norfolk area in December 1989.
Burial: Unknown
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