Maj. Gen. Carl E. Mundy III, U.S. Marine Corps Forces, Special Operations Command commander, gives a condolence speech during a celebration of life ceremony aboard Marine Corps Base Camp Lejeune, N.C., Aug. 31, 2017. The ceremony honored the seven MARSOC service members lost July 10 in a KC-130T Hercules transport aircraft crash. The seven included Staff Sgts. Robert Cox and William Kundrat, Navy special amphibious reconnaissance corpsman, Petty Officer 1st Class Ryan Lohrey , and Sgts. Chad Jenson, Dietrich Schmieman, Joseph Murray and Talon Leach. (U.S. Marine Corps photo by Sgt. Salvador R. Moreno, released)
U.S. Marine Corps Forces, Special Operations Command will host a press conference in front of the command headquarters building aboard Stone Bay in Sneads Ferry, N.C., today at 12:00 p.m.
A Marine KC-130 transport aircraft crashed in LeFlore County, Miss., on July 10 at approximately 4 p.m. CDT, with 16 service members missing and presumed deceased. The aircraft was transporting six Marines and one Navy sailor from Marine Corps Forces, Special Operations Command and their associated equipment for routine small unit pre-deployment training at Marine Corps Air Station Yuma, Ariz. All seven were from the Camp Lejeune-based 2d...
