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n the evening of October 11, 2014, 19-year-old US Marine Lance Corporal Joseph Scott Pemberton must have been all set for a grand time on the town. On shore leave in what to him must have been exotic Olongapo City, he was half a world away from his hometown of New Bedford, Massachusetts. Like many his age, Pemberton gravitated towards the bar scene, ending up in a disco bar called Ambyanz.