On Saturday, the U.S. Marine Corps identified the marine who died in an F/A18D hornet crash during a training exercise.
The pilot killed in a US Marine Corps F/A-18 Hornet fighter crash Thursday night in Southern California has been identified.
The F/A-18D Hornet went down at 11:54 p.m. Thursday near Marine Corps Air Station Miramar and searchers recovered the pilot at the site, the 2nd Marine Aircraft Wing said in a statement from its headquarters in Cherry Point, North Carolina.
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