Missing Marines Declared Dead and Identities Released Days After Aircraft is Found<br />Marine said that The loss of every Marine is felt across our entire Marine Corps family,<br />Officials suspended the search for the missing Marines early Sunday morning, about 11 hours after their hybrid aircraft,<br />an MV-22 Osprey, entered the water about 18 miles from the coast of the Shoalwater Bay Training Area in Queensland.<br />8, 2017<br />Three missing United States marines were officially declared dead<br />and their identities were released on Monday, two days after their aircraft crashed into the water off eastern Australia.<br />"To the families of the brave Marines we lost — there is no way for us to understand what you are going<br />through." What you need to know to start your day, delivered to your inbox Monday through Friday.<br />was conducting regularly scheduled operations" when it entered the water, an initial news release said. that and<br />The Osprey, a tilt-rotor aircraft, was developed in the 1980s and earned a bad reputation after multiple crashes killed more than two dozen marines.<br />The Marine Corps said that the circumstances of the crash, which it had termed a mishap, were under investigation.
