Newspapers: Military Air crash reported by the Dalles Chronicle, Wasco County, Oregon

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OFFICIALS SAY JET COLLISION PROBE MAY REQUIRE MONTHS
By Sarah Linn Associated Press Writer
The Dalles Chronicle   July 23, 2004  Front page

PORTLAND – Investigators are combing through the wreckage of a midair collision
Between two fighter jets over the Columbia River, but said they might not
Determine a cause for months.

Early Friday morning, the military released the name of the two Marine 
Reservists killed in the crash: Major Gary Fullerton, 36, of Spartenburg, South 
Carolina, and Captain Jeffrey Ross, 36, of Old Hickory, Tennessee.

“These two very talented young men had offered many years of dedicated service
to the protection of the freedoms we all enjoy today,” said Colonel Gary 
Vaughan, their commanding officer.

A Marine spokesman said a memorial service is planned but a date has not yet
Been set.

A third crew member, 38-year-old Major Craig Barden, received minor injuries. 

The crash of the two FA-18 Hornets near Arlington [Oregon] was the latest in
A string of U.S. Marine Corps aviation accidents, coming less than a month after
Two fatal accidents involving Marine fighter jets based in Beaufort, South 
Carolina.

Written permission to reprint given by The Dalles Chronicle, The Dalles, Oregon.