{"id":186295,"date":"2026-02-20T17:06:11","date_gmt":"2026-02-20T17:06:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/186295\/"},"modified":"2026-02-20T17:06:11","modified_gmt":"2026-02-20T17:06:11","slug":"marine-corporal-dies-at-mountain-warfare-training-center-in-california","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/186295\/","title":{"rendered":"Marine corporal dies at mountain warfare training center in California\u2002"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" class=\"mb2-plus4\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/230226MARINE-DEATHphoto01.jpg\" alt=\"An external photo of a military training facility sign in a snowy environment.\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"default-font lh-default ma0 mh3 mt0 pb3\">\n\t\t\t\tThe U.S. Marine Corps Mountain Warfare Training Center near Bridgeport, Calif., is pictured on Feb. 1, 2021. (Stars and Stripes)<br \/>\n\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p class=\"storyline-p f4 \">A Marine infantryman died Jan. 30 at the Marine Corps Mountain Warfare Training Center in Bridgeport, Calif., a Marine spokesman said Thursday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"storyline-p f4 \">Cpl. Jayger A. Nealy, 22, of Bellevue, Wash., died in what the Marines said was a non-training incident.&#13;<\/p>\n<p class=\"storyline-p f4 \">\u201cTo preserve the integrity of the investigation, no additional details are available at this time,\u201d said Lt Col. Alex Lim, a spokesman for the 1st Marine Division at Camp Pendleton, Calif.&#13;<\/p>\n<p class=\"storyline-p f4 \">Nealy served as a rifleman in 2nd Battalion, 4th Marine Regiment, 1st Marine Division. He joined the Marine Corps in October 2022.&#13;<\/p>\n<p class=\"storyline-p f4 \">The base in the eastern Sierra Nevada mountains \u201cis home to the Marine Corps\u2019 only mountain and cold weather training center in complex terrain,\u201d according to the installation\u2019s website.&#13;<\/p>\n<p class=\"storyline-p f4 \">The center trains Marines to operate in inclement weather, utilizing both formal schools and unit training programs, according to the Marines.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The U.S. Marine Corps Mountain Warfare Training Center near Bridgeport, Calif., is pictured on Feb. 1, 2021. (Stars&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":186296,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[87748,7,9,8,87745,12007,87746,8048,87744,87747],"class_list":{"0":"post-186295","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-california","8":"tag-bridgeport","9":"tag-california","10":"tag-california-headlines","11":"tag-california-news","12":"tag-corporal","13":"tag-fatality","14":"tag-jayger-nealy","15":"tag-marine-corps","16":"tag-marine-regiment","17":"tag-mountain-warfare-training"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/186295","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=186295"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/186295\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/186296"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=186295"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=186295"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=186295"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}