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DOD Announces Deaths Of 2 California-Based Marines

RIVERSIDE (CBS) — The Department of Defense Friday announced the deaths of two California-based Marines killed while supporting Operation Enduring Freedom in Afghanistan.

Staff Sgt. Nicholas A. Sprovtsoff, 28, of Davison, Mich., and 27-year-old Sgt. Christopher Diaz of Albuquerque, N.M., were killed Wednesday while conducting combat operations in Helmand province, according to the Department of Defense.

Diaz was assigned to Headquarters Battalion, Marine Corps Air Ground Combat Center, at Twentynine Palms.

Sprovtsoff was assigned to 1st Marine Special Operations Battalion, U.S. Marine Corps Forces Special Operations Command, at Camp Pendleton.

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