A Jamestown native is one of the seven marines who died during a night training exercise in Nevada last Monday. Lance Corporal Mason Vanderwark was among the Marines who died in the explosion involving a mortar shell late Monday night.
Vanderwark was born in WCA Hospital and is the only son of Melissa Vanderwark. His family had since moved to North Carolina while he was still a child. An autopsy is being performed on all seven Marines and the bodies should be released to the families later this week. Vandrwark was 21 years old.
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