Pallbearers bring the coffin of Lt. Col. Benjamin J. Palmer into the Marine Corps Air Station Cherry Point Chapel May 23. More than 500 members of the local and military communities gathered to bid farewell to the beloved Marine who was killed in action in Helmand province, Afghanistan, May 12 while supporting Operation Enduring Freedom. - Pallbearers bring the coffin of Lt. Col. Benjamin J. Palmer into the Marine Corps Air Station Cherry Point Chapel May 23. More than 500 members of the local and military communities gathered to bid farewell to the beloved Marine who was killed in action in Helmand province, Afghanistan, May 12 while supporting Operation Enduring Freedom.