The 1st Marine Division announced on April 18 the identities of two Marines who died after their vehicle crashed along the southern border on April 15.
Lance Corporal Albert Aguilera, 22, from Riverside, California, and Lance Corporal Marcelino Gamino, 28, from Fresno, California, were taking part in a convoy movement near Santa Teresa, New Mexico, when their vehicle crashed with a civilian vehicle west of Fort Bliss Army base near the Texas state line at approximately 8:50 a.m. local time, the division said.
Military deportation flights depart from that base, and Aguilera and Gamino were there to support Joint Task Force Southern Border operations as part of the 1st Combat Engineer Battalion after President Donald Trump allowed the military to take control of the region known as the Roosevelt Reservation. That is the land owned by the federal government along the U.S.-Mexico border of New Mexico, Arizona, and California….