John Deltoro News Today

The United States military is having trouble keeping its aircraft in the skies these days, at least in Southern California where some three different planes and helicopters crashed in the desert [...]

Another US warplane has crashed in the California desert near El Centro -- the third in the region in a week and less than 48 hours after an MV-22B Osprey crash killed the five Marines on board in the same area.

The Navy said that all four of the aircrew on board the helicopter survived, though one sailor suffered "non-life threatening injuries."

According to the Marines, the aircraft was stationed at Marine Corps Air Station Camp Pendleton with Marine Aircraft Group 39.

A military aircraft crashed in Imperial County near the Arizona border Wednesday afternoon, killing four people, according to a federal source.

By Nathan Solis Los Angeles Times

The United States Navy has identified the sailor killed in a motor vehicle accident near Jacumba, California, last Friday as Electronics Technician 2nd Class John Deltoro, age 29.

A U.S. Naval Special Warfare sailor was killed on Friday and four other sailors were injured when the van they were traveling in for a training exercise

The two sailors were killed in separate incidents -- a downed fighter jet and a van crash on the highway -- over the past few days.

John Deltoro, 29, was killed and four fellow Navy servicemembers injured in East County crash