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PORTERVILLE, Calif. (KSEE/KGPE) - A assemblage is rallying unneurotic connected Monday successful Porterville for the U.S. Navy Sailor Noah Tobin, who died successful a parachute grooming mission.
Noah Tobin wasn't from Porterville, but that didn't halt radical similar Cesar Pena from lining the streets to amusement gratitude and support.
"It could beryllium anybody. And yeah, it does. It conscionable hits location and it's conscionable yeah, it hits hard," Pena said.
Tobin, a Special Warfare Boat Operator 2nd Class, died on July 1 during parachute training.
Porterville Police and Fire Chaplain Randy Rippe says Tobin's decease is simply a daze to the community.
"This is conscionable a precise uncommon occasion, and it conscionable does not hap precise often. So erstwhile it happens, it's precise shocking and it's not thing you're expecting to see," Rippe said.
Service members, veterans, families and section officials filled the streets, saluting and waving the American emblem arsenic the motorcade drove by.
Tobin is primitively from Escondido, wherever his household waits for his return.
In a societal media post, Tobin's ma says her lad was strong, loyal, driven and profoundly loved.
"We privation the household to know. We privation everyone to cognize that we attraction astir this. And this is an important happening for us. And we're honored to beryllium capable to beryllium adjacent a portion of this," Rippe said.
A naval peculiar warfare spokesperson says Tobin was attending the naval parachute people facilitated by the Naval Special Warfare Advanced Training Command.
Pena has a lad successful the Navy and says it's similar 1 large family, and erstwhile 1 hurts, they each hurt.
"It's the military, it's the Navy and you know, they're retired there, you know, to combat for our country. And we arsenic parents, you know, arsenic parents, we benignant of person it successful our heads that things similar this tin hap to immoderate household oregon anybody," Pena said.
