The Navy has identified the two crew members killed when their jet fighter crashed near Mount Rainier last week as two 31-year-old aviators from California. Lt.

Two Naval aviators who were killed when their aircraft crashed near Mount Rainier in Washington State last week had just returned from a Middle East deployment where they took part in strikes against the Houthis in Yemen.

The U.S. Navy identified two pilots who were killed in an aircraft crash last week, calling them “role models, trailblazers, and women whose influence touched countless people on the flight deck and well beyond.