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SANTA TERESA, N.M. – Military officials person identified the 2 Marines from California who were killed when their conveyance crashed arsenic a convoy was traveling on the U.S.-Mexico borderline adjacent Santa Teresa, New Mexico.
They were Lance Cpl. Albert Aguilera, 22, of Riverside and Lance Cpl. Marcelino Gamino, 28, of Fresno. Both were members of the 1st Combat Engineer Battalion based astatine Camp Pendleton.
Another Marine with the battalion remains successful captious condition.
The probe into Tuesday's clang is ongoing, subject officials said successful a statement.
The portion wherever the mishap took spot is conscionable implicit the authorities enactment and westbound of Fort Bliss, a large Army installation successful West Texas that has played a captious relation successful dispatching subject deportation flights and served arsenic a touchpoint for thousands of soldiers and pieces of instrumentality present deployed on the border.
The troops are deployed determination successful enactment of President Donald Trump’s enforcement bid to secure the U.S.-Mexico border.
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