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...military legal system, it is the commanding general at Camp Pendleton, California, where the unit that is the focus of the Haditha investigations is based, who will decide whether or not to bring criminal charges. But the case may be delayed slightly since one general, Lt. Gen. John Sattler, is being replaced by Lt. Gen. James Mattis and Sattler may not have enough time before he leaves to make a decision on what to charge, if anything, so Mattis would have to start fresh. Both are highly respected officers, and more important, both have served tours in Iraq...
This September, Senator John McCain's youngest son, Jimmy, 18, will report to a U.S. Marine Corps depot near Camp Pendleton in San Diego. After three months of boot camp and a month of specialized training, he will be ready to deploy. Depending on the unit he joins, he could be in Iraq as early as this time next year, and his chances of seeing combat at some point are high. Of the 178,000 active-duty Marines in the world, some 80,000 have seen a tour in Iraq or Afghanistan, and 25,000 are now bearing the brunt...
CHARGED. Seven U.S. Marines and a Naval corpsman, from California's Camp Pendleton Marine base; with the kidnapping and murder of an unarmed Iraqi man who was pulled from his home and shot as troops sought insurgents in the city of Hamandiya; in Washington. The charges came amid an investigation into alleged murders at Haditha by other Marines--and in the same week that the Pentagon announced charges against four Army soldiers in the murder of three Iraqi detainees in Salahuddin province...
...killings now under investigation. Miguel was Martin's best friend, but Miguel had other brothers, the Marines of Kilo Company. "They were like another family to him," says Martin, who reveled in the stories of Miguel and his military comrades. On nights off from training at Camp Pendleton, Calif., Miguel and his fellow Marines would carouse along the winding alleys of Tijuana, across the border in Mexico. Sometimes Miguel would get lost, especially when the cervezas flowed and the seņoritas beckoned. But he always knew to call Martin on a cell phone to let him know where...
...call to head to his grandfather's house. "I knew even before I got there," he says. His grandfather Jorge has a makeshift shrine to Miguel in what was once the young man's bedroom. In it is a quilt the Marines presented to Miguel's family at Camp Pendleton as a tribute to him. "My wife cries all the time now," says the 65-year-old. "It's breaking her heart what they're saying about those Marines." Jorge and his wife don't follow the news much anymore--they think the Marines are being unfairly tried...