DARWIN, AUSTRALIA – The recent deployment of United States Marines to Australia was put on hold Monday, following revelations by the Marine Corps that the Commanding Officer from Fox Company, Second Battalion, Third Marines had been carried off by wild dingos in an incident over the weekend.

The battalion was conducting training exercise VIGILANT KOALA, near Uluru in the Northern Territories at the time of the incident.

At approximately 12:30am, the battalion's Combat Operations Center (COC) for the field exercise received a radio check from Fox Company's night watch, which consisted of Captain Joel Caden, Lance Corporal Zavier Danell, and Private Justin Hollands.

Shortly after that, Captain Caden dismissed Lance Corporal Danell and Private Hollands to guard the company's ammo supply point on the other side of the encampment.