Funeral Services
ANNAPOLIS, Md. (AP) - Funeral services have been scheduled for a Maryland Marine who was one of seven people killed Monday when a mortar shell exploded during a training exercise in Nevada.
WMAR-TV reports the body of William Taylor Wild IV is expected to arrive at Dover Air Force Base on Thursday. A viewing for the 21-year-old lance corporal will be held March 29th at Barranco & Sons Funeral Home in Severna Park. A memorial service will be held March 29 at the Unitarian Universalist Church in Annapolis.
Wild will be buried at Arlington National Cemetery on April 2.
Mother
Meanwhile, his mother, Elizabeth Wild, says she learned Tuesday that her son, 21-year-old Lance Cpl. William Taylor Wild IV, died Monday in the explosion. She says her son joined the Marines shortly after graduating in 2010 from Severna Park High School.
Elizabeth Wild says everybody called her son Taylor and he had been deployed twice to Afghanistan and once to Kuwait.
She says he always wanted to go into the military, like his father, who is a command chief in the Air Force Reserve at Dover Air Force Base in Delaware.
Taylor Wild was in a weapons platoon that was scheduled to deploy in November to Afghanistan.
