Fifteen Marines and a Navy corpsman were killed on July 10th when their KC-130-Transport crashed in a field in Mississippi, the deadliest crash for the USMC in over a decade. The plane was traveling from the Marine Corps Air Station Cherry Point, in North Carolina, towards the Naval Air Field El Centro, California, carrying members of the Marine Special Operations unit 2nd Marine Raider Battalion. The Special Operations unit was to ultimately deploy to an insertion training exercise in Yuma, Arizona. Of the 16 dead, 6 were from the 2nd Marine Raider Battalion, out of Camp Lejeune, with the sailor … Continue reading Marine Special Ops among 16 fatalities in C-130 crash