The Marine who died in a Thursday plane crash in the Philippines was an intelligence and electrotonic warfare specialist assigned to a unit in California, the service announced on Sunday.
Sgt. Jacob Durham was one of four people who died following the crash of a Beechcraft King Air 350 in the Philippine province of Maguindanao del Sur, according to the statement from I Marine Expeditionary Force.
Durham, assigned to 1st Radio Battalion, I Marine Expeditionary Force Information Group, IMEF, and three DoD contractors were aboard the aircraft owned by Metrea on “a routine mission in support of U.S.-Philippine security cooperation…