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Virginia Marine Among 3 Dead In Osprey Crash
A U.S. Marine from Virginia was among three killed in an Osprey crash in Australia over the weekend.
U.S. Marine Corps Corporal Spencer R. Collart, 21, of Arlington, and two others died in the Sunday, Aug. 27 crash on Melville Island, north of Darwin, around 9:30 a.m., military officials said.
The two other Marines killed in the crash were:
U.S. Marine Corps Captain Eleanor V. LeBeau, 29, of Illinois; and U.S. Marine Corps Major Tobin J. Lewis, 37, the executive officer of VMM-363 (REIN), Marine Rotational Force – Darwin, of Colorado.
Three Marines remain hospitalized, including one in cr…
Falling Tree Kills Marine Corps Web Developer In Virginia
Support was surging for the family of a Virginia man killed by a falling tree this weekend.
Not only did the Lee family lose its home, they lost its patriarch.
Kenneth Allan Lee, Jr., a web developer for the U.S. Marine Corps, died on Sunday, July 30, when a tree fell on his Holly Hill Drive home amid a "tornado-like" storm, according to a GoFundMe for the family and county police.
Lee, 43, leaves behind his wife, Rachel, and daughters, Matilda and Amelia.
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Marine Corps Vet From NJ Admits Defrauding VA Out Of $119,000, Threatening Agent
A U.S. Marine Corps veteran from New Jersey admitted that he threatened to harm a federal agent after defrauding the VA out of $118,979 in disability benefits, authorities said.
Kamil Wakulik, 38, lied when he claimed that he'd suffered PTSD from active-duty service that included having to recover human remains following natural disasters in the Philippines and Thailand, U.S. Attorney for New Jersey Philip R. Sellinger said.
Wakulik, who lives in the Morris County community of Long Valley and was in the Corps from 2003 to 2007, wasn't involved in such operations, the U.S. attorney said.
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