But in 2019, then-Commandant Gen. David Berger reoriented the Marine Corps back to its blue water roots with his controversial Planning Guidance. The move implied a greater role for Marine ...

Durham died Thursday along with three defense contractors when a plane contracted by the U.S. military crashed in the southern Philippines. (MCS1 Tyler Thompson/U.S. Navy) The Marine Corps ...

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U.S. Marine Corps Sgt. Jacob M. Durham, 22, of Long Beach, was killed along with three military contractors in an airplane crash in the Philippines on Thursday, Feb. 6, 2025. He joined the Marines ...

CAMP PENDLETON, Calif. (FOX 5/KUSI) – Marine Corps officials at Camp Pendleton on Sunday identified Sgt. Jacob M. Durham as the U.S. Marine who tragically lost his life in an aircraft incident ...

the Marine Corps confirmed Sunday. He and three contractors were aboard the UC-12W Beechcraft King Air 350 that went down Feb. 6 in Maguindanao del Sur on the southern Philippine island of Mindanao.

“The aircraft was providing intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance support at the request of our Philippine allies.” Originally from Long Beach, Calif., Durham joined the Marine Corps ...

MANILA, Philippines — The Philippine Marine Corps (PMC) has acquired an additional marine asset, a combat rubber raiding craft (CRRC) with outboard motors, for its Force Reconnaissance Group ...

(CNS) -- A Marine killed in an airplane crash in the Philippine Province of Maguindanao ... Durham embodied the highest traditions of the Marine Corps -- exemplifying composure, intelligence ...