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The U.S. Marine from Virginia who was killed in a tiltrotor aircraft crash during a training exercise in Australia is being laid to rest Monday at Arlington National Cemetery.

Marine Capt. Eleanor LeBeau Cooke, killed in a crash during a training exercise in northern Australia, was buried Saturday.

“She brought joy, exuberance, and an abundance of love into the world,” says the obituary of Capt. Eleanor “Ellie” Cooke, a graduate of Althoff Catholic High School.

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The aircraft crashed on a north Australian island Sunday and left 20 injured. An investigation into the crash is ongoing.

Spencer Collart, orginally from Arlington, Virginia, was among three Marines killed in a helicopter crash during a training exercise in Australia.

The bodies of three U.S. Marines killed in a tiltrotor aircraft crash during a training exercise in Australia have been retrieved from the crash scene. They were from Illinois, Virginia

The exercises were openly framed as a response to US-stoked tensions between the Philippines and China over disputed waters in the South China Sea.

“(Ellie Cooke) joined the U.S. Marine Corps as a pilot with the same zeal and commitment she gave to everything,” her family recalls.

A woman from Belleville, Illinois, was one of three U.S. Marines killed in a tiltrotor aircraft crash during a training exercise in Australia, the Marine Corps said.