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KINGMAN, Ariz. (AP) -- The same motorcycle group that threw a going away party for Navy sailor Justin McNeley in Kingman, Arizona, last May is now expecting to escort his body to his funeral.
The 30-year-old father of two, who moved from Wheatridge, Colorado to Kingman in 2004, was killed in Afghanistan last week after he and fellow sailor Jarod Newlove, of Renton, Washington were seen driving into a Taliban-held area.
The Taliban have said they killed one of the two men in a firefight and captured the other.
A member of the Patriot Guard Riders motorcycle group which helped organize the going-away event in Arizona calls McNeley "insightful" and "charismatic."
Richard Tromba said he hopes his group will have the honor of escorting his body.
Colorado state Rep. Jim Kerr told The Denver Post McNeley was his wife's nephew and had been expected to return next month.
McNeley's father, George McNeley, is a fire official in Encinitas, California.
His mother lives in Kingman.
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