--- title: "Marine Corps Identifies The 16 Men Killed In KC-130 Crash" date: "2017-07-14" modified: "2017-07-14" authors: - name: "James Clark" job_title: "Editor-in-Chief" link: "https://taskandpurpose.com/authors/james-clark.md" url: "https://taskandpurpose.com/news/marine-corps-identifies-16-men-killed-kc-130-crash/" categories: - "Aircraft" - "Around the World" - "Marine Corps" - "Military Branches" - "News" - "Tech & Tactics" - "United States" tags: - "Crash" - "Northern Command" --- # Marine Corps Identifies The 16 Men Killed In KC-130 Crash ![]() The 15 Marines and one Navy corpsman killed on July 10, when a Marine Corps KC-130T Hercules aircraft exploded mid-air over Mississippi, have been identified. The casualties included members of Marine Aerial Refueler Transport Squadron 452, as well as six Marines and one Navy corpsman from 2nd Marine Raider Battalion. The Raiders killed in the crash were part of the same Marine Special Operations Team (MSOT 8321) that lost seven men in a UH-60 crash in Florida in 2015, according to [Dan Lamothe]() and [Thomas Gibbons-Neff ]()of the Washington Post. https://twitter.com/Tmgneff/status/885843365417406464 The incident is the latest in a series of fatal aviation accidents within the Marine Corps and the deadliest in more than a decade, when a CH-53E Super Stallion crash in western Iraq killed 30 Marines and one sailor in 2005. More recently, [12 Marines were killed]() when a pair of CH-53Es collided over Hawaii in January 2016. The aircraft was transporting personnel and equipment from Marine Corps Air Station Cherry Point in North Carolina to Naval Air Facility El Centro in California, when [an as-of-yet unidentified incident]() caused the aircraft to break into two pieces, with debris found at two separate sites, a mile apart, [reports The Washington Post.]() Most of the remains were delivered to Jackson Medgar Evers International Airport July 13, [according to the Associated Press.]() The names and unit information of those lost in the crash are listed below as identified by the Marine Corps on Twitter on July 14. ### Staff Sgt. Robert H. Cox https://twitter.com/USMC/status/885837461116551168 ### Staff Sgt. William Kundrat https://twitter.com/USMC/status/885837610714877953 ### Sgt. Chad Jenson https://twitter.com/USMC/status/885837753816154112 ### Sgt. Talon Leach https://twitter.com/USMC/status/885838050009415680 ### Hospital Corpsman 2nd Class Ryan Lohrey https://twitter.com/USMC/status/885838438225907712 ### Sgt. Joseph Murray https://twitter.com/USMC/status/885838664844136448 ### Sgt. Dietrich Schmieman https://twitter.com/USMC/status/885839074061414402 ### Cpl. Daniel Baldassare https://twitter.com/USMC/status/885839448688218112 ### Cpl. Collin J. Schaaff https://twitter.com/USMC/status/885839522713530368 ### Sgt. Joshua M. Snowden https://twitter.com/USMC/status/885839331054813185 ### Sgt. Owen Lennon https://twitter.com/USMC/status/885838196642385920 ### Sgt. Julian M. Kevianne https://twitter.com/USMC/status/885837909953306624 ### Maj. Caine Michael Goyette https://twitter.com/USMC/status/885836609635090432 ### Capt. Sean E. Elliott https://twitter.com/USMC/status/885836770700656640 ### Gunnery Sgt. Mark A. Hopkins https://twitter.com/USMC/status/885837058224386048 ### Gunnery Sgt. Brendan C. Johnson https://twitter.com/USMC/status/885837281751420928 ## Author James Clark is the editor-in-chief of Task & Purpose. He is a Marine veteran and former combat correspondent. He deployed twice to Afghanistan with 1st Battalion, 6th Marine Regiment, first to Marjah in 2010, and then to Kajaki and Sangin in 2011. ### Author social links [Twitter]() [LinkedIn]() ## More - [Intense video shows fiery Marine Corps F-35 crash after colliding with a C-130]() - [Remains of 3 Marines killed in KC-130 crash off Japanese coast identified]() - [Iraqi Pilot Killed In Arizona F-16 Fighting Falcon Crash]() - [3 Marines killed, 20 survivors in Australia Osprey crash. \[Audio\] \[Updated\]]() - [9 Airmen Killed When Air Force WC-130 Crashes in Savannah, Georgia]() - [Investigation Excoriates Air Force, Navy For 2017 Marine Corps KC-130 Crash That Killed 16]() - [Corps Identifies 5 Marines Who Died In KC-130 Crash Off Japan]() - [Air Force engineer charged with cover up in Marine KC-130 crash that killed 16]()