Body found of third US marine killed off Australian coast
‘The remains of the third and final US Marine killed when a military aircraft crashed off the east Australian coast have been recovered, the Marine Corps said on Friday.
There were 26 people aboard the tilt-rotor MV-22 Osprey when it plunged into the sea near the Queensland state city of Rockhampton during military exercises on Aug. 5.
Marine 1st Lt. Benjamin Cross, 26, of Oxford, Maine; Cpl. Nathaniel Ordway, 21, of Sedgwick, Kansas; and Pfc. Ruben Velasco, 19, of Los Angeles, were killed in the crash.
Ordway and Velasco’s remains were soon recovered, transferred to Hickham Air Force Base in Hawaii and were being sent on to their families.’
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