Marine Corp SGT Jay T. Collado, 31, of Columbia, SC, died on February 20, 2006. 

Collado, on his second deployment to Iraq, was killed in Baghdad, Iraq, of injuries sustained from an improvised explosive device.  He was assigned to Marine Light Attack Helicopter Squadron 267, Marine Aircraft Group 39, 3rd Marine Aircraft Wing, I Marine Expeditionary Force, Camp Pendleton, CA. 

Collado graduated from Richland Northeast High School in 1993.