Marine found dead in Okinawa home identified
CAMP FOSTER, Okinawa — The Marine Corps on Thursday released the name of a Marine who was found dead in his Okinawa base quarters earlier this week.
Staff Sgt. Ronald L. Williams, 29, of Anchorage, Alaska, was discovered at home in a residential tower on Camp Kinser on Monday. The cause of death is under investigation by the Naval Criminal Investigative Service.
Williams was an aircraft rescuer and firefighter assigned to Headquarters and Headquarters Squadron on Marine Corps Air Station Futenma in Ginowan, according to the service. He had been stationed on Okinawa since March.
“No words can be offered to his surviving family that will alleviate the hurt that assails them now, but I hope that they can find some comfort in the fact that Staff Sgt. Williams was a Marine whose personality, character and work ethic was respected throughout the squadron and whose passing is felt by each and every Marine whose lives he touched,” Col. James G. Flynn, the commander of the air station, said in a statement.
