Keywords: Heroic last stand; Marines thwart enemy attack DVIDS87199.jpg en CAMP RAMADI Iraq - The Marines with 3rd Platoon Police Transition Team 3 Weapons Company 1st Battalion 9th Marine Regiment come together April 29 to prove their resolve and to show support for one another Cpl Jonathan T Yale a rifleman with 2nd Battalion 8th Marine Regiment and Lance Cpl Jordan Haerter were killed in action April 22 by a suicide bomber inside a dump truck with approximately 1 000 pounds of high explosives I was on post the morning off the attack said Lance Cpl Benjamin Tupaj a rifleman with 3rd Platoon Police Transition Team 3 Weapons Company 1st Battalion 9th Marines with a hurtful tone in his voice I heard the M-249 Squad Automatic Weapon go off at a cyclic rate and then the detonation along with a flash It blew me at least 3 meters from where I was standing Then I heard a Marine start yelling 'we got hit we got hit ' It was hectic Photo/ LCpl Casey Jones 2008-04-29 https //www dvidshub net/image/87199 87199 2008-05-07 10 01 RAMADI IQ PD-USGov 2nd Battalion 8th Marines Camp Ramadi Images from DoD uploaded by Fæ |