His fate's been in limbo for nearly three weeks, but on Wednesday, Sgt. Gary Stein was discharged from the Marines without honor for making fun of the president on Facebook.
Defense Secretary Leon Panetta has apologized for grisly new photos showing American soldiers posing with the body parts of Taliban suicide bombers and promised that “anyone found responsible for this inhuman conduct will be held accountable.” If similar recent events are any indication, those punishments will be a long time coming.
In a reminder that military work is dangerous even during training inside the United States, seven marines were killed when their two helicopters -- a two-seat Cobra and a Huey -- crashed into each other in midair in a remote part of California across the border from Yuma, Arizona, on Wednesday night.
Marine Corps officials say the Marines who posed with this Nazi SS flag did so because they had no idea those distinct S's were Nazi symbols, they just thought it was a neat font they could use to represent Sniper Scouts, the Associated Press' Julie Watson reports.
The complicated case of the Haditha massacre in which American Marines killed two dozen unarmed Iraqi civilians on November 19, 2005 isn't getting any simpler.
This is not going to make Leon Panetta very happy. Two men in that widely-condemned "urination" video have been identified and investigated, offering more proof that the video is very real.
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