English: Marines and sailors from 1st Battalion, 7th Marine Regiment, gathered to pay their final respects to Lance Cpl. Jeremy Z. Long Aug. 19, 2006, in Zella, Iraq. Long, an 18-year-old from Sun Valley, Nev., lost his life Aug. 10, 2006, while conducting combat operations through a Euphrates River village near the Iraq-Syria border. Long, a rifleman with the battalion�s Company A, was about a month shy from returning to the United States with his battalion when he died. The Marines, based out of this small, dusty outpost along one of Iraq�s main highways in Al Anbar Province, provide security for villages along a stretch of road and encounter deadly roadside bombs on a regular basis � sometimes finding up to three in any given week. The battalion is scheduled to return home to the States next month and will be replaced by another southern California-based unit.