Numerous Marines were found dead in their homes in the past couple of months
September 26, 2023
Karl Puckett
The Island Packet (Hilton Head Island, S.C.)
(TNS)
Sep. 25—Three Marines have died at Parris Island in the last two-and-a-half months — including two in last week — but the Marine Corps is not releasing the causes.
On Friday, Sgt. Yliana Hernandez, a 25-year-old water survival instructor from Volusia, Fla., was found dead at her residence. During her Marine Corps service, Hernandez, who was married, was awarded the Navy and Marine Corps Achievement Medal, National Defense Service Medal, Military Outstanding Volunteer Service Medal, and two Marine Corps Good Conduct Medals.
In 2020, Hernandez was featured in a video on Marine TV called “promoting resiliency.” In it, she talked about growing up in a small town where there was not much to do and being rebellious. She climbed towers around the baseball field and once filled the high school cafeteria with balloons full of crickets. But while others saw rebelliousness, the Marines saw Hernandez’s fearlessness and said, “this is good, we can work with this. They said, ‘we can make you more.'”
“But I tell you this I’m not afraid of being myself,” Hernandez says in the video. “I strive to show the world what I am and not what it wants me to be.”
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