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The photographs of 11 fallen service members line a theater stage, commemorating the individuals during their celebration of life ceremony, May 15, 2015, aboard Marine Corps Base Camp Lejeune, North Carolina. The seven MARSOC Marines and four Louisiana Army National Guardsmen pictured were killed when a UH-60 Black Hawk Helicopter crashed during amphibious operations involving helicopter and boat insertion and extraction training near Eglin, Fla., March 10. (U.S. Marine Corps photo by Cpl. Steven Fox/Released) - The photographs of 11 fallen service members line a theater stage, commemorating the individuals during their celebration of life ceremony, May 15, 2015, aboard Marine Corps Base Camp Lejeune, North Carolina. The seven MARSOC Marines and four Louisiana Army National Guardsmen pictured were killed when a UH-60 Black Hawk Helicopter crashed during amphibious operations involving helicopter and boat insertion and extraction training near Eglin, Fla., March 10. (U.S. Marine Corps photo by Cpl. Steven Fox/Released)

MARSOC ceremony honors 11 helicopter crash victims

Second Marine Special Operations Battalion, U.S. Marine Corps Forces, Special Operations Command, hosted a celebration-of-life ceremony aboard Marine Corps Base Camp Lejeune, North Carolina, May 15, to remember and honor the seven Marines and four soldiers who died in a helicopter crash during a training exercise.Honored at the ceremony were: Army

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Search, rescue shifts to recovery operations

Search and rescue efforts to find the seven missing Marines and four Army aircrew in Eglin, Florida, shifted to recovery operations March 12. The implication of that change means we are not hopeful of finding any survivors.Eglin search and recovery efforts with multiple agencies located the missing Army UH-60 aircraft, and they have begun the

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Critical skills operators with Marine Corps Forces Special Operations Command exit the back of a KC-130J Super Hercules during bilateral static-line jump training over a drop zone near Memphis, Tenn., Sept. 29, 2014. Marine Aerial Refueler Transport Squadron 252 supported the MARSOC Marines who were conducting long-range raid training. - Critical skills operators with Marine Corps Forces Special Operations Command exit the back of a KC-130J Super Hercules during bilateral static-line jump training over a drop zone near Memphis, Tenn., Sept. 29, 2014. Marine Aerial Refueler Transport Squadron 252 supported the MARSOC Marines who were conducting long-range raid training.