He came to America 45 years ago and enlisted in the US Marine Corps.
Mr Tice, who had served in the US Marine Corps, entered Syria in May.
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President Barack Obama said he had accepted Gen Allen's request to retire, praising his "decades of service" in the US Marine Corps.
Endeavour's crew is commanded by George Zamka, a colonel in the US Marine Corps, and includes the British-born mission specialist Nicholas Patrick.
He will be replaced as US commander of international forces in Afghanistan by Joseph Dunford, who is currently US Marine Corps deputy commander.
The US Marine Corps last year had to publicly upbraid Lt Gen James Mattis after he cheerfully admitted on a panel discussion that he enjoyed war.
The US Marine Corps in Okinawa went on maximum alert following the suspected terrorist attacks in New York and Washington, the Kyodo news agency said quoting a US military official.
The study was sponsored by the US Office of Naval Research, which invests in projects to benefit the US Navy and Marine Corps.
Last week's order to ground the planes - in the US air force, army and Marine Corps - marked the second time in two months planes from the F-35 range have been grounded.
This Wireless Waterway project is the result of thousands of volunteer hours by members of the Commission and an equal amount by those in the towing industry, academia, the US Army Corps of Engineers (USACE) and the federal Committee on Marine Transportation (CMTS), to all of whom we are extremely grateful.
But we feel it particularly in the Marine Corps because we're a smaller outfit, and these things have a greater impact on us.
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