A U.S. Marine from Minnesota has been declared dead after he was lost at sea during a training exercise off the coast of Southern California last week.
Richfield native Lance Cpl. Armando Ortiz Canseco, 21, was reported missing from the USS Anchorage, an amphibious transport dock ship, on Thursday and was officially declared dead on Saturday following an extensive search-and-rescue operation.
Efforts to recover Ortiz Canseco’s body are ongoing and the circumstances surrounding his death remain under investigation, according to the I Marine Expeditionary Force, the U.S. Marine Corps’ largest warfighting Marine Air-Ground Task Force…