(AP) -- Michigan Gov. Jennifer Granholm has ordered that U.S. flags be flown at half-staff statewide to honor a Marine from suburban Detroit who was killed in Afghanistan. Flags are to be lowered Monday for 21-year-old Cpl. Jacob Turbett of Wayne County's Canton Township.
The Defense Department says Turbett died Feb. 13 during an offensive against the Taliban in Helmand province. Turbett wrote on his Facebook page that he was a 2007 graduate of Canton High School and was serving as a combat engineer. He was assigned to the 2nd Combat Engineer Battalion, 2nd Marine Division, II Marine Expeditionary Force, based at Camp Lejeune, N.C.
Sheila Turbett says her son is to be buried Tuesday at Arlington National Cemetery in Virginia.
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