July 10 crash claimed nine Marines from Stewart

The Wingman Foundation, a nonprofit based in New York City, has launched a fundraising campaign to assist the families of 15 Marines and one Navy corpsman who died in a plane crash in Mississippi on July 10.

Nine of the Marines were members of a Reserve unit based at the Stewart Air National Guard Base in Newburgh. See wingmanfoundation.org/yankees.

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