2 US Soldiers Returned After Morocco Cliff Fall During African Lion Exercise

12 articles · Updated · Florida Today · May 14

Military aircraft flew the bodies of Spc. Mariyah Symone Collington, 19, and 1st Lt. Kendrick Lamont Key Jr., 27, back to the U.S. on May 13 after they disappeared in Morocco.
Collington’s body was recovered May 12 from a coastal cave about 500 meters from where the two reportedly entered the ocean after falling off a cliff during an off-duty hike near Tan Tan on May 2.
More than 1,000 U.S. and Moroccan military and civil personnel searched over 21,300 square kilometers using air, sea, dive, mountaineering and ground teams; Key’s body had been found May 9 about a mile from where they were reported missing.
The soldiers were in Morocco for African Lion, U.S. Africa Command’s largest annual joint exercise, which involved about 5,000 personnel from more than 40 nations in Morocco.

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