DOVER, DEL. The bodies of four Marines killed in the crash of a military plane during a NATO exercise were returned to the United States on Friday.
An Osprey plane crashed on March 18 in a Norwegian town in the Arctic Circle, killing four Marines, the US Marines said. Hundreds of U.S. Marines, sailors, service members and civilians last saluted the fallen Marines in Bodo, Marine Corps officials said on Saturday. , Norway, early Friday.
The Marine Corps officials were then loaded onto a National Air Force military transport plane and flown to Dover Air Force Base in Delaware, Marine Corps officials said. The remains of the marines will eventually be moved to their final resting place in accordance with the wishes of their families, officials said in a statement.
The collision killed Captain Ross A. Reynolds, 27, of Leominster, Massachusetts; Captain Matthew J. Tomkiewicz, 27 years old, of Fort Wayne, Indiana; Sergeant Cannon. James W. Speedy, 30 years old, of Cambridge, Ohio; and Cpl. Jacob M. Moore, 24 years old, of Catlettsburg, Kentucky.
All of these men were assigned to 261st Marine Squadron, 26th Marine Aircraft Group, 2nd Marine Aircraft Wing, stationed at Marine Corps Air Station New River, North Carolina. . They are taking part in a long-planned NATO exercise called Cold Response, which authorities say is unrelated to Russia’s war in Ukraine.
