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The crash occurred around 4:30 p.m. local time after the
aircraft took off from a marine combat center in the desert city
of Twentynine Palms, Marine Corps Air Station Miramar
spokeswoman Captain Melanie Salinas said in a statement.
The names of the soldiers were not immediately released. The
crash is being investigated by military authorities, Salinas
said.
"Our hearts go out to the families and friends of the two
Marines we lost in this tragic accident," Major General Michael
Rocco said in a statement.
Twentynine Palms is a city of some 25,000 people roughly 140
miles (225 km) east of Los Angeles.
Further details were not immediately available.
(Reporting by Curtis Skinner in San Francisco, editing by
William Hardy)
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