A man had been stranded for nearly two days after flipping his off-road motorcycle when a Marine helicopter crew spotted him.

The 600,000-acre base is located in the Southern California desert, and provides troops ... Soon after it was put to use by the US Army and Marines — in Afghanistan in 2007, and Iraq in 2008.

A group of U.S. Marines rescued a wounded civilian stranded ... he was conscious but clearly exhausted and in pain. He told us he had been hoping someone would see him before it was too late.” ...