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MONTEREY COUNTY, California ( KSBW ) -- The Monterey County Sheriff’s Office says the man swept off the rocks into the ocean at Soberanes Point was a Defense Language Institute Foreign Language Center student.

The man was identified as Amanpreet Thind, a 35-year-old U.S. Army specialist and student at the Defense Language Institute, as the man swept away by waves at Soberanes Point on Saturday.

Col. Christy L. Whitfield, Commandant at the Defense Language Institute Foreign Language Center, stated, “The missing person from Saturday’s incident at Garrapata State Park is Spc. Amanpreet Thind, a U.S. Army Soldier and student at the Defense Language Institute Foreign Language Center. As search and recovery operations continue, we hold out hope that Spc.

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