The American service member who was killed alongside three Defense entrepreneurs When their little plane crashed in the Philippines was identified as a California sailor.
Sgt. Jacob M. Durham died Thursday when a plane contracted by the American army is carrying out a routine mission “providing information, monitoring and support for recognition at the request of our Philippin Allies,” said camp officials Pendleton in California in a press release.
The statement did not include the age of Durham and the city of California where it came from. Officials did not immediately respond to emails from the Associated Press requesting this information.
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On Thursday, the US Indo-Pacific Command declared in a press release that the theft was part of a routine mission “supporting American-Philipinus” security cooperation activities “and that there was that four people aboard the plane. The plane crashed into a rice field near Ampatuan, a small municipality in southern Maguindanao del on the province.
The officials said the cause of the accident was investigated.
The Civil Aviation Civil Authority of the Philippines confirmed the accident of a light plane in the province of Maguindanao of the surface. The bodies of the four people were recovered from the wreck in the city of Ampatuan, said Ameer Jehad Tim Ambolodto, a Maguindanao del security officer.
The American forces were deployed in a Philippin military camp in the south of the country for decades to help provide training and advice to the Philippine forces that fight against Muslim activists. The region is home to minority Muslims in the largely Roman Catholic nation.
Windy Beaty, a provincial disaster attenuation agent, told the Associated Press on Thursday that she had received information that residents saw smoke from the plane and heard an explosion before the Airplane does not fall on the ground for about half a thousand a group of farms.
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The officials said that Durham had been trained as an electronic analyst in intelligence / electromagnetic war attributed to the 1st radio battalion, I Marine Expeditionary Force Group. He joined the Marines in January 2021 and was promoted to its current rank on February 1.
Durham’s prices include the naval and naval body federation medal, the medal of good conduct of the Marine Corps, the National Defense Service medal, a meritory mast and air -air insignia, officials said.
“Sgt. Durham embodied the highest traditions in the Marine Corps-illustrating the composure, intelligence and disinterested leadership, “said Lieutenant-Colonel Mabel B. Annunziata, commander of the 1st radio battalion, in the press release. “He was deeply respected and loved by his marine companions.”