2 NC-based Marines killed in Iraq

CAMP LEJEUNE (AP) -- The military says two Marines from Camp Lejeune have died of wounds they suffered during combat in Iraq's Anbar province.

The Department of Defense said Friday that 19-year-old Lance Cpl. Jordan C. Haerter of Sag Harbor, N.Y., and 21-year-old Cpl. Jonathan T. Yale of Burkeville, Va., died Tuesday.

Haerter was a member of the 1st Battalion, 9th Marine Regiment of the 2nd Marine Division. Yale was a member of the 2nd Battalion, 8th Marine Regiment of the 2nd Marine Division. The division is an element of the II Marine Expeditionary Force at Camp Lejeune.

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