THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF PENNSYLVANIA

HOUSE RESOLUTION

INTRODUCED BY DELOZIER, AUMENT, BAKER, BARRAR, BEAR, BENNINGHOFF, BOBACK, BOYD, B. BOYLE, BRENNAN, BROOKS, CALTAGIRONE, CARROLL, CAUSER, CLYMER, COHEN, COX, DEASY, DiGIROLAMO, ELLIS, J. EVANS, EVERETT, FABRIZIO, FLECK, GABLER, GEIST, GEORGE, GINGRICH, GODSHALL, GOODMAN, GRELL, GROVE, HAHN, HARHART, HARRIS, HELM, HENNESSEY, HICKERNELL, HORNAMAN, KAUFFMAN, M. K. KELLER, W. KELLER, KNOWLES, KORTZ, KULA, LONGIETTI, MAHER, MAJOR, MALONEY, MANN, MARSHALL, MARSICO, MILLARD, MILLER, MIRABITO, MULLERY, MURPHY, MUSTIO, OBERLANDER, M. O'BRIEN, O'NEILL, PARKER, PAYNE, PERRY, PICKETT, QUINN, RAPP, RAVENSTAHL, READSHAW, REICHLEY, ROAE, ROCK, ROEBUCK, ROSS, SAINATO, SAYLOR, SCAVELLO, SCHRODER, SONNEY, STABACK, STERN, STEVENSON, SWANGER, TALLMAN, TOEPEL, TOOHIL, VEREB, VULAKOVICH, WATSON, YOUNGBLOOD, CONKLIN, SANTONI, MICCARELLI, MURT AND HALUSKA, NOVEMBER 30, 2011

INTRODUCED AS NONCONTROVERSIAL RESOLUTION UNDER RULE 35, NOVEMBER 30, 2011  

A RESOLUTION

Honoring the life of United States Marine Corps Corporal

Jonathan Dean Faircloth, who died while taking part in

training maneuvers at Marine Corps Base Kaneohe Bay, Hawaii.

WHEREAS, United States Marine Corps Corporal Jonathan Dean

Faircloth, 22, died on Tuesday, March 29, 2011, while taking

part in training maneuvers at Marine Corps Base Kaneohe Bay,

Hawaii; and

WHEREAS, Corporal Faircloth was born in York on May 7, 1988,

and graduated from Mechanicsburg Area High School in 2006; and

WHEREAS, He joined the Marine Corps in 2006 and was deployed

to Iraq in 2008 and to Afghanistan in 2010; and

WHEREAS, Corporal Faircloth served as an aerial observer and

aircraft mechanic throughout his five-year military career; and

WHEREAS, For his exemplary service, Corporal Faircloth was

awarded four Air Medals, two Navy-Marine Corps Achievement

Medals, the Iraq Campaign Medal, the Afghanistan Campaign Medal,

the Global War on Terrorism Service Medal and the National

Defense Service Medal; and

WHEREAS, Corporal Faircloth is survived by his wife, Alicia;

parents, Beverly and Dean Faircloth; sister, Danielle L. Rodkey;

brother James; maternal grandmother, Beryl Yost; nephews and

nieces and numerous aunts, uncles and cousins; and

WHEREAS, At all times throughout his military career,

Corporal Faircloth served his nation with pride, devotion, honor

and skill, and his tragic and heroic death during training

maneuvers exemplifies the dangers that our brave young

servicemen and servicewomen face every day as they safeguard our

freedoms; therefore be it 

RESOLVED, That the House of Representatives honor the life of

United States Marine Corps Corporal Jonathan Dean Faircloth, who

died while taking part in training maneuvers at Marine Corps

Base Kaneohe Bay, Hawaii.