KABUL, Afghanistan – Three American service members and a U.S. contractor were killed when their convoy hit a roadside bomb on Monday near the main U.S. base in … Sailor and 8 Marines Killed in Training Accident Off Calif. Coast Identified by Military Officials Joelle Goldstein 8/3/2020. The Pentagon identified the two other Marines killed as Cpl. Robert A. Hendriks, 25, of Locust Valley, New York, and Sgt. Thursday’s training accident was the third in nine years in which local Marines were injured or killed in an amphibious assault vehicle. Benjamin S. Hines, 31, of York, Pennsylvania. They ranged in age from 19 to early 30s and all … The Marines were with the 1st Light Armored Reconnaissance Battalion, 1st Marine Division, when the death happened in May 2019. In 2017, 14 Marines and one Navy sailor were hospitalized after their vehicle hit a natural gas line at the camp, igniting a fire that engulfed the landing craft. In their claim of responsibility, the Taliban said they launched the attack and that one of their suicide bombers detonated his explosives-laden vehicle near the NATO base. Three U.S. Marines were killed by an improvised explosive device in northern Parwan province in Afghanistan on Monday, according to the U.S. … The remains of seven Marines and one sailor killed in a training accident off the coast of Southern California late last month were recovered on Friday in … 8 The accident occurred off … https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/30-marines-killed-helicopter 1 Marine Dead, 8 Missing After Southern California ‘Training Mishap' Seven Marines and one U.S. Navy sailor remain missing after an amphibious vehicle sunk during a … The injured Marines … Two members of a Marine Special Operations team were killed Sunday in northern Iraq while conducting an operation with Iraqi forces against Islamic State fighters hiding in a cave complex.The operation, which occurred in the mountains south of Erbil, resulted in an additional mission to rescue the bodies, which took nearly six hours. Southern California hospitals on verge of rationing care. The accident happened late Thursday afternoon near San Clemente Island, when Marines reported the vehicle was taking on water, the service said in a statement. All the Marines were attached to the 15th Marine Expeditionary Unit, based at nearby Camp Pendleton. The identities are being withheld while family …