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3. The Marines are working on a microwave-based weapon that:
Thompson: In recent years, top officers have been taking less individual responsibility for disasters on their watch - with the USS Cole, for example, or when the Marines hit the ski gondola in Italy - but this may force the services to take another look at culpability. At this point, we know...
Law-breaking Marines are bad enough, but in Japan some American brass have fueled the ill will with an appalling lack of manners. E-mail messages from Lieut. General Earl Hailston, the Commander of U.S. forces in Okinawa, leaked a few weeks ago referred to the island's governor, Keiichi...
It wasn't an overnight success. At 18, Orville Richard Burrell (his oft untamed mane earned him the nickname Shaggy) left Kingston, Jamaica, for Brooklyn, N.Y., to launch a singing career. When he couldn't make ends meet, he joined the Marines. A year later, he found himself in Iraq...
Despite these concerns, Marine officers say, the Pentagon was well on its way to approving full-scale production. Then a December Osprey crash killed four Marines and, a month later, disclosures about the fudged records put that decision on hold. For now, the Pentagon's 12 Ospreys remain grounded.