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(AP) -- The Department of Defense says a 21-year-old Marine from Paulding County was killed while supporting combat operations in Afghanistan. 

The Pentagon said Jason H. Estopinal of Dallas was killed on Monday in Helmand province, site of a major offensive by U.S. and Afghan forces against the Taliban. 

Estopinal was assigned to \ 2nd Battalion, 2nd Marine Regiment, 2nd Marine Division, II Marine Expeditionary Force out of Camp Lejeune, N.C. 

Estopinal was a 2007 graduate of East Paulding High School in Dallas.

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