The U.S. Marine who died, Durham, had been trained as an electronic intelligence/electromagnetic warfare analyst and was assigned to the 1st Radio Battalion, 1 Marine Expeditionary Force Information Group, according to military officials.
A U.S. Marine from California was one of four people who died after a military plane crashed into a rice field while flying over the Philippines.
The plane was contracted by the U.S. military and was carrying three defense contractors along with the marine, who was identified by officials as Sergeant Jacob Durham, 22, of Long Beach.
American marine dies in Philippines plane crash Residents saw the airplane smoking before it exploded and fell from the sky, according to local reports.
Durham embodied the highest traditions of the Marine Corps — exemplifying composure, intelligence, and selfless leadership,” Lieutenant Colonel Mabel Annunziata, commanding officer of 1st Radio Battalion, said in a statement.
