{"id":2013453,"date":"2023-08-27T10:21:02","date_gmt":"2023-08-27T14:21:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/3-u-s-marines-killed-several-injured-during-training-exercise-in-australia\/"},"modified":"2023-08-27T10:23:49","modified_gmt":"2023-08-27T14:23:49","slug":"3-u-s-marines-killed-several-injured-during-training-exercise-in-australia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/3-u-s-marines-killed-several-injured-during-training-exercise-in-australia\/","title":{"rendered":"3 U.S. Marines dead, many injured in Australian training exercise."},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">20<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2F3-u-s-marines-killed-several-injured-during-training-exercise-in-australia%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=2013453&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><h2>Tragic Crash Claims Lives of U.S.\u200b Marines in Australia<\/h2>\n<blockquote>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Three U.S. Marines lost their\u200b lives during \u200da training\u2062 exercise on a picturesque northern Australian island. The incident occurred when an American MV-22B\u2063 Osprey \u2062aircraft\u200b carrying the troops crashed, leaving several \u2063others wounded, according to \u2064officials.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The tiltrotor aircraft was transporting \u200b23 \u2063U.S. Marines\u2062 when it tragically crashed at \u200capproximately 9:30 a.m. local\u2062 time \u200don Melville Island.\u200c This island\u2062 is situated off the Northern Territory of mainland Australia in the\u2064 Timor Sea. The crash\u200d resulted \u200bin injuries to twenty Marines, \u200cwith five in serious condition being flown to a\u200d town 50 miles away\u200b for urgent treatment, as\u2063 reported\u2062 by the\u2064 <a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/us-military-aircraft-crash-australia-e85fcd46cd3c85933d724a8cf4f253b3\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Associated Press<\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u201cMarine\u2063 Rotational Force \u2013 \u2064Darwin \u2062can confirm \u200da U.S. Marine Corps MV-22B Osprey \u2063crash \u200bon Melville \u2062Island, north of Darwin,\u2062 Northern Territory, \u200cAustralia, while transporting troops during a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/three-us-marines-killed-in-military-plane-crash-in-australia\/\" title=\"Three US Marines die in plane crash in Australia.\">routine training exercise<\/a>,\u201d stated the Marine Rotational Force in Darwin (MRF-D) in a <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/MRFDarwin\/status\/1695703721081204844\/photo\/1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/hunter-biden-defector-emails-pipeline-to-obama-admin-seen-as-currency\/\" title=\"Hunter Biden Defector Emails: 'Pipeline' to Obama Admin Seen as 'Currency'\">press release<\/a><\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">One of the injured Marines underwent \u200bsurgery at a\u200c hospital in Darwin, according\u200c to Natasha \u200cFyles, \u200bthe chief minister of Australia\u2019s Northern Territory.\u2062 Recovery \u2064efforts are \u200bstill underway, and \u200dthe cause of\u2064 the \u200ccrash is \u2063currently under investigation,\u200b as mentioned in the MRF-D press \u200drelease issued early Sunday.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">According to an\u200b audio recording of an American official\u2019s report\u2064 to \u2063Australian air traffic controllers, there was a\u2062 \u201csignificant fire\u200d in the vicinity of the crash site,\u201d as reported by \u2063the AP.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b data-stringify-type=\"bold\"><\/b><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The \u200bill-fated Osprey aircraft was \u200done of two\u2062 that departed from the \u2063Australian town\u2063 of Darwin for the Tiwi Islands, where Melville Island is located, \u2062approximately 50\u2062 miles \u2064away. The \u200cpurpose of this \u2064&#8221;routine \u2064training exercise&#8221;\u200c was to \u200csupport Exercise Predators \u200bRun, a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/3-u-s-marines-killed-several-injured-during-training-exercise-in-australia\/\" title=\"3 U.S. Marines dead, many injured in Australian training exercise.\">multi-nation\u200d military exercise involving<\/a> the United States, Australia, Indonesia, the Philippines, and East Timor.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u201cThe initial\u200b reports suggest that\u200c the incident involves just U.S.\u2062 defense force\u2064 personnel,\u201d\u2062 stated Australian Prime\u2064 Minister Anthony Albanese. \u201cOur focus as a government and as the department of defense is very \u2064much on incident response and on making sure that every support and assistance is given at this difficult time.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Exercise Predators \u2064Run, which includes approximately\u200c 2,500 participants, including 500 from \u200dthe United States, has been temporarily paused following this tragic incident. The exercise, \u2063originally scheduled to\u200b conclude on September\u2062 7\u200c after 12 days, has been put on\u2062 hold.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">While the cause of the\u200c incident remains unknown, this is not the \u2064first time the\u2063 Osprey aircraft has been involved\u2062 in a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/european-regulator-to-lift-boeing-737-max-grounding-in-january\/\" title=\"European regulator to lift Boeing 737 MAX grounding in January\">fatal crash<\/a>. According to the AP, there\u200b have\u200b been five\u2062 fatal crashes involving \u2063Marine Osprey aircraft since 2012. In June 2022, a mechanical failure related to the aircraft\u2019s clutch resulted \u200bin the\u2063 deaths\u200d of \u2063five \u200cMarines in California after an Osprey crash, \u2064as stated in a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/multiple-casualties-after-v-22-osprey-carrying-23-marines-crashes-onto-indigenous-owned-foreign-island\/\" title=\"V-22 Osprey carrying 23 Marines crashes, causing multiple casualties on indigenous-owned foreign island.\">crash investigation report<\/a>. Three months prior\u200d to\u200b that, four\u2064 Marines\u2063 were <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/world\/2023\/08\/27\/australia-crash-us-marines-killed-osprey\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">killed<\/a> in\u2062 an Osprey crash during \u2064a NATO\u200d exercise in Norway.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Three U.S. Marines died in a training accident on an Australian island. An American MV-22B Osprey carrying the troops crashed, injuring others. The tiltrotor aircraft, with 23 Marines on board, went down at around 9:30 a.m. local time on Melville Island.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1530,"featured_media":2013454,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[541],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2013453","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-daily-wire"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2013453","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1530"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2013453"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2013453\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2013454"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2013453"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2013453"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2013453"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}