LEOMINSTER, Mass. (AP) — The physique of a Marine officer killed final month throughout a NATO coaching train in Norway was returned Saturday to his residence in Massachusetts.
A airplane carrying the stays of Capt. Ross Reynolds landed at Logan Worldwide Airport in Boston, the place it was met by his household and Gov. Charlie Baker.
Six Marines loaded the casket right into a hearse, which was then escorted to his hometown of Leominster, about 40 miles west of Boston. A whole lot of metropolis residents, a lot of them bearing U.S. and Marine Corps flags, lined the streets because the hearse made its option to a funeral residence in neighboring Fitchburg.
“He was a first-class child from an incredible household, and he simply wished an opportunity to serve,” Baker stated.
Reynolds, a 27-year-old Osprey pilot who joined the Marines in 2017, was one in all 4 Marines killed when their plane crashed March 18 throughout a NATO drill in a Norwegian city within the Arctic Circle.
The others who died had been Capt. Matthew Tomkiewicz, of Fort Wayne, Indiana.; Gunnery Sgt. James Speedy, of Cambridge, Ohio; and Cpl. Jacob Moore, of Catlettsburg, Kentucky.
Reynolds, who simply bought married in February, was an Eagle Scout who graduated from Leominster Excessive College and Worcester State College. He shall be honored at a candlelight vigil at 7 p.m. Sunday at Leominster Metropolis Corridor.
A public wake is scheduled for Monday afternoon at metropolis corridor. The funeral Mass shall be held at St. Cecilia’s Church on Tuesday. The burial on the Massachusetts Memorial Veterans’ Cemetery in Winchendon shall be non-public.
The reason for the crash stays underneath investigation, however Norwegian police reported unhealthy climate within the space. Officers in Norway stated the MV-22B Osprey crashed in Graetaedalen in Beiarn, south of Bodoe.
The boys had been all assigned to Marine Medium Tiltrotor Squadron 261, Marine Plane Group 26, 2nd Marine Plane Wing stationed at Marine Corps Air Station New River, North Carolina.
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