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Nov 19, 2009 4:23 pm US/Mountain

Marines To Honor Parker Helicopter Crash Victim

CAMP PENDLETON, Calif. (AP) ―

Click to enlarge 1 of 1: 1st Lt. Thomas Claiborne was killed last month when the Marine helicopter he was riding in collided with a Coast Guard plane.
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Marines will gather for a memorial service at Camp Pendleton for two men killed last month when their Marine helicopter collided with a Coast Guard plane.

Thursday's service at the base chapel is for 1st Lt. Thomas Claiborne of Parker and Maj. Samuel Leigh of Belgrade, Maine.

They died on a training exercise Oct. 29 about 50 miles off the Southern California coast. Their AH-1W Super Cobra helicopter collided with a Coast Guard C-130 plane on a mission to rescue a missing boater.

Seven Coast Guard members who also died in the crash have been honored at a service in Sacramento.

A joint Marines-Coast Guard board is investigating the cause of the crash.