Report: California Marines dying in car crashes

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http://gazette.com/report-california-marines-dying-in-car-crashes/article/1517010

Report: California Marines dying in car crashes
Associated Press • Published: March 24, 2014

TWENTYNINE PALMS, Calif. — A Southern California Marine base has suffered more deaths from incidents including car crashes and suicides in the last seven years than war fatalities, a newspaper investigation showed on Monday.

Sixty service members from the Marine Corps Air Ground Combat Center in Twentynine Palms have died in the Middle East since 2007, while 64 have died on American soil, the Desert Sun reported (http://bit.ly/1demSW9).

An investigation by the newspaper found 28 Marines died in off-duty vehicle crashes while stationed at the base about an hour's drive from Palm Springs. A dozen Marines died on Highway 62, a 151-mile route that runs from the Coachella Valley to the Arizona border and takes Marines from the base to the nearest hub for dining, nightlife and shopping.

"Any civilian that gets killed is still just as much of a tragedy, but just to have to go to war and then come back and die at home during peacetime," said Curtis Kolb, a San Bernardino County sheriff's deputy who has investigated many of the crashes, "it just kind of puts it on a different level of tragic situation."

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