VERIFIED QUOTE · reported 2026-08-26
“Staff Sergeant Darren 'Taylor' Hoover was killed next to me,”
Tyler Vargas-Andrews · said date not stated · reported 2026-08-26
Vargas-Andrews, who lost his legs in the Abbey Gate explosion, described the moment a fellow Marine was killed beside him.
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