Haerter and Yale, were posthumously awarded the Navy Cross for their actions, which were later recounted by Iraqi police present that day and captured on a security camera, according to Business Insider.īefore that day, Yale and Haerter had never met. The attack, the Marines’ final stand, and their sacrifice all took place in a matter of seconds. Then it detonated, killing the two Marines and leveling a city a block. Jordan Haerter, its windshield and the driver behind the wheel both blown away in a hail of gunfire.
On April 22, 2008, in Ramadi, Iraq, two Marine infantrymen stood their ground and opened fire on a truck carrying 2,000 pounds of explosives as it barreled toward their post and the 150 Marines and Iraqi police inside the perimeter.
