Local Marine killed in Mideast

CAMP LEJEUNE, N.C. (AP) - August 21, 2008

The Marine Corps said Wednesday that 20-year-old Lance Cpl. Travis M. Stottlemyer of Hatfield, Pa., died Sunday in a non-hostile incident in Manama, Bahrain.

Stottlemyer was a member of the 3rd Fleet Anti-terrorism Security Team Company, Marine Corps Security Force Regiment, which is based in Norfolk, Va.

A Camp Lejeune spokesman said Stottlemyer joined the Marines in October 2006.

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