who was planning to visit him when the shooting occurred. she has vowed to become a marine to honor his memory. one of his last texts, quote, can t wait anymore, wells texted. yes, you can, honey, his girlfriend replied. they then wrote, active shooter. his father was asked what drove him to serve. tradition. tradition. with everything going on he wanted to help out. and being in the marine corps is where he thought he could do the most good. sergeant carson holmquist was 25 years old and deployed to afghanistan twice. he was married and had a 2-year-old son. he played defensive back on his high school football team. gunny sullivan was in the marines for 18 years and was about to retire. he survived truck bombs in one of the iraqi worst assaults the battle of abu ghraib. he received purple hearts.
shooting occurred. one of his last texts, quote, can t wait anymore, wells texted. yes, you can honey. he then wrote active shooter. his father was asked what drove him to serve. it s with everything going on, he wanted to held out. being in the marine corp is where he thought he could do the most good. sergeant holmquist was married and had a son named wyatt. and in the service 18 years, survived truck bombs and the battle in the worst assault, two purple hearts, likely to receive a third.
threatens their ability to get it back. these are basically car bombs and truck bombs, and those could wreak huge havoc on militia forces that would go into a place like ramadi. reporter: and in the not so friendly skies over the capital raqqah syria, they found they had unwelcome company. on saturday for the first time, the coalition says syrian war planes conducted airstrikes over raqqah at the same time coalition war planes were bombing bridges four miles away. worry that the air campaign just got even more dangerous. since there s no koord narks the risk of a crash or some other incident including firing on each other could definitely occur, and that is one of the biggest issues that we would have flying over syria. reporter: raqqah is very much in the u.s. cross hairs.
if it works the plan calls for iraqi forces to move west. but two months after iraqi forces ran from ramadi, isis threatens their ability to get it back. first and foremost, vehicle explosive devices are basically car bombs and truck bombs, and those could wreak huge havoc on forces that would go into a place like ramadi. reporter: and in the not so friendly skies over raqqah syria, the u.s. coalition found it had unwelcome company. on saturday, for the first time the coe liis says syrian war planes condubed airstrikes over raqqah at the same time coalition airstrikes were bombing bridges four miles away. worry the air campaign got even more dangerous. since there s no
anbar province west of baghdad, the isis stronghold in iraq. u.s. officials say full-blown combat is yet to begin. shia militias are already moves east towards fallujah an attempt to freeze isis in place there. if it works, the plan calls for iraqi forces to move west towards ramadi. but two months after iraqi forces ran for ramadi isis threatens their ability to get it back. first and foremost improvise the devices these are basically car bombs and truck bombs, and those could wreak huge havoc on iraqi regular forces that would go into a place lycra mehdi. here may be the most telling they will. they will make no predictions about when the iraqis may