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Five Camp Pendleton-based servicemen killed when an aircraft crashed during a training flight in Imperial County have been identified by the U.S. Marines Corps.

The U.S. Navy has ordered all non-deployed aircraft units to conduct a one-day safety pause beginning Monday after multiple recent crashes in Southern California.

One of the Marines that died was the son of former Los Angeles Dodgers second baseman Steve Sax.

Articles from the tag: Marine

CAMP PENDLETON, Calif. – The nearly dozen amphibious combat vehicles swam toward the shore, their shuttered hatches providing long-slung silhouettes in the Pacific as USS Anchorage (LPD-23) lingered a mile offshore. Two Navy safety boats from the amphibious transport dock ship trailed in slight swells as the ACVs rolled onto the California sands. Last weekend’s […]

Sgt. Maj. Terrence Whitcomb, senior enlisted Marine at Camp Pendleton-based I Marine Expeditionary Force, was relieved of duty Tuesday

Sgt. Maj. Terrence Whitcomb, a 28-year Marine Corps veteran, was relieved

So far, boards of inquiry have voted not to force any officer faulted by accident investigations out of the Marines

The third of six planned separation boards convened at Marine Corps Base Camp Pendleton Tuesday as the service weighs what to do with the officers and senior enlisted leaders blamed in the fatal sinking of an assault amphibious vehicle off the San Diego coast two summers ago.

After hearing testimony Friday from the former battalion commander, a panel of three Marine colonels will determine whether he should be held responsible.