| January 15, 2012 | - The U.S. military began an investigation into a video that portrays four Marines urinating on the corpses of suspected Taliban insurgents, and a California man was taken into custody after pouring the cleaning agent Goof Off into his wife’s bowl of Rice Krispies.
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BBC
Source 2:
Los Angeles Times
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| October 19, 2011 | - Three U.S. Marines were imprisoned in San Diego for entering into fraudulent heterosexual marriages to get housing-allowance money for one of the Marines and her female partner, and American researchers demonstrated that people with strong physiological responses to unpleasant images, such as a man eating live worms, are more likely to oppose gay marriage.
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Los Angeles Times
Source 2:
PLoS
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| January 7, 2011 | - The Pentagon announced plans to send an additional 1,400 Marines to Afghanistan to “consolidate gains already achieved,” and a live cockroach was found in the colon of a Philadelphia woman. “The patient had a cockroach infestation at home,” explained the colonoscopy report. "Hence it was hypothesized that she may have inadvertently ingested a cockroach with food.”
| Source 1:
BBC News
Source 2:
Gizmodo
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| December 18, 2010 | -
Congress voted to repeal Don't Ask Don't Tell. “Today's a very sad day. The commandant of the United States Marine Corps says when your life hangs on the line, you don't want anything distracting,” said Arizona senator John McCain in his closing argument prior to the Senate vote. “You go up to Bethesda Naval Hospital, Marines are up there with no legs, none. You've got Marines at Walter Reed with no limbs.” Soon after the vote, Senator Reid tweeted to Lady Gaga, “We did it! DADT is a thing of the past.”
| Source 1:
Politico
Source 2:
Washington Post
Source 3:
New York Times
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| November 28, 2010 | -
North Korea bombarded the South Korean island of Yeonpyeong with 180 artillery shells, killing two marines and two civilians in one of the largest skirmishes on the Korean peninsula since the end of the Korean War.
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New York Times
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| August 25, 2010 | - Five soldiers in Afghanistan were charged with forming a “kill team” to summarily execute random Afghan civilians, a college student recently returned from a month spent filming Marines in Afghanistan slashed a Muslim cab driver in New York, and General David Petraeus revealed that he is “an Enya guy.”
| Source 1:
Raw Story
Source 2:
New York Daily News
Source 3:
Fox News
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| March 26, 2010 | - The Pentagon announced that changes to the enforcement of the Don't Ask, Don't Tell law would make it more difficult to expel gay soldiers from the military. The Marine Corps commandant, General James Conway, announced he wouldn't want gay and straight Marines to share rooms. “I would not ask our Marines to live with someone that's homosexual if we can possibly avoid it," he said.
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NYT
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CNN
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| February 4, 2010 | - In Afghanistan's Helmand Province, the Taliban were ambushing the American military using “ancient signaling techniques”; three people were killed and 17 wounded in a suicide-bomb attack in Kandahar, and a drone strike killed 29 presumed terrorists in northwestern Pakistan, where the Taliban were stalking American soldiers and their hired mercenaries. “We know the movement of U.S. Marines and Blackwater guys,” said a spokesman for the group. “We have prepared suicide bombers to go after them.”
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NY Times
Source 2:
BBC News
Source 3:
CNN
Source 4:
CNN
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| August 4, 2009 | -
Russian
nuclear submarines were caught patrolling off the eastern coast of the United States,.
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NYT
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| July 2, 2009 | - Four thousand U.S. Marines were deployed to the Helmand Province in Afghanistan, where they are under orders to counteract the influence of the Taliban by befriending the locals. “We're not going to drive to work,” said the brigade's commander. “We're going to walk to work.”
| Source 1:
NYT
Source 2:
WP
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| February 17, 2009 | -
French and British authorities acknowledged that nuclear submarines from the two countries collided earlier this month.
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Washington Post
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| October 11, 2007 | - The Marine Corps was seeking to withdraw its 25,000 troops in Iraq and redeploy them to Afghanistan,.
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New York Times
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| August 17, 2007 | - After waiting 55 years for a Purple Heart, Nyles Reed, a 75-year-old Korean War veteran and former Marine, received a form letter from Navy Personnel Command saying the medal was out of stock and suggesting that he buy his own.
| Source:
Houston Chronicle
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| July 16, 2007 | - It was reported that during intercourse the owners of private submarines are sometimes troubled by peeking dolphins.
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NineMSN
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| June 24, 2007 | - A Marine Corps memo, circulated after the 2005 Haditha massacre, was made public. “'Fighting terrorists associated with Al Qaida' is stronger language than 'serving',” read the memo. “The American people will side more with someone actively fighting a terrorist organization that is tied to 9/11 than with someone who is idly 'serving,' like in a way one 'serves' a casserole.”
- A Marine Corps memo, circulated after the 2005 Haditha massacre, was made public. “'Fighting terrorists associated with Al Qaida' is stronger language than 'serving',” read the memo. “The American people will side more with someone actively fighting a terrorist organization that is tied to 9/11 than with someone who is idly 'serving,' like in a way one 'serves' a casserole.”
| Source:
NYT
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| April 4, 2007 | - Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad released 15 abducted British
marines.
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Los Angeles Times
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| December 13, 2006 | - The Marine Corps ordered a sergeant to call off an online auction that gave the highest bidder the right to rename him; bids included “King Taco” and “Sgt. Finest Freshest Fastest.”
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NYT
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| November 28, 2006 | -
Marine Corps intelligence in the Sunni Triangle determined that U.S. forces were “no longer capable of militarily defeating the insurgency.”
| Source:
Washington Post
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| November 9, 2006 | - “Who's Rumsfeld?” asked Marine Lance Corporal James L. Davis Jr., who is serving in Zagarit, Iraq.
| Source:
The New York Times
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| September 20, 2006 | - In Afghanistan,
Marine General James L. Jones claimed to have killed as many as a third of the Taliban's “hardcore” fighters, leaving only the “weekend warriors.”
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New York times
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| August 22, 2006 | - Thousands of U.S. Marine reserves were involuntarily recalled to active duty to offset a lack of volunteers for the fighting in Iraq and Afghanistan.
| Source:
CNN
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| August 3, 2006 | -
Lance Corporal Mark Beyers, an Iraq war veteran and double amputee, was attacked and robbed outside a restaurant in Bethesda, Maryland.
| Source:
Local6.com
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| July 29, 2006 | - A marine sniper who has killed as many as 60 insurgents in Iraq said of his work, “It's like hearing classical music playing in my head.”
| Source:
USA Today
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| June 14, 2006 | -
Marine Corporal Joshua Belile apologized for appearing in “Hadji Girl,” an Internet-distributed
video in which he plays guitar and jokes about killing an Iraqi family. “They should have known,” he sang, “they were fuckin' with a Marine.”
| Source:
The Mercury News
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| June 11, 2006 | - The attorney for Staff Sgt. Frank D. Wuterich, one of the marines charged with the Haditha massacre, asserted that the massacre, though “tragic,” was nonetheless “lawful” and was the result of following “the rules of engagement and standard protocol.”
| Source:
Associated Press
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| May 30, 2006 | -
Senator John Warner called for hearings into the killings of more than 20 civilians in Haditha by U.S. Marines in 2005.
| Source:
The Australian
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| May 29, 2006 | - It was reported that a U.S. Marine had been traumatized by his experiences cleaning up and documenting the alleged massacre of civilians by other marines in Haditha. “He called me many times,” said the marine's mother, “about carrying this little girl in his hands and her brains splattering on his boots.”
| Source:
Los Angeles Times
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| May 27, 2006 | - In Iraq over 66 people were killed in attacks, including two CBS News employees when their convoy was struck by a car bomb; a CBS correspondent was seriously injured in the same attack. In Baghdad two tennis players and their coach were killed for wearing shorts, and a Marine helicopter was shot down over the Anbar province.
| Source 1:
ABC News
Source 2:
AP via Forbes.com
Source 3:
ABC News
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| March 19, 2006 | - A videotape emerged purporting to show that in November of 2005 Marines in Haditha, seeking revenge for the deaths of their comrades, killed 15 unarmed Iraqis, including seven women and three children. "I watched them shoot my grandfather," said an eyewitness, "first in the chest and then in the head. Then they killed my granny." The Marines promised to investigate.
| Source:
Time
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| March 17, 2006 | - A man named Allen Abney, who went AWOL from the Marines in 1968 before his unit was sent to Vietnam, was arrested for desertion and placed in a Marine jail when he tried to cross into Idaho from Canada. He was released a week later.
| Source:
The Globe and Mail
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| January 31, 2006 | - Former Marine Platoon Sergeant Jim Massey said that the United States was funneling depleted uranium to Iraq through Ireland.
| Source:
UTV
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| January 29, 2006 | -
Marine James Blake Miller, whose face became emblematic of the Iraq war after he was photographed smoking a cigarette during the November 2004 attack on Fallujah, was at home in Kentucky, where he was suffering from post-traumatic stress disorder and had cut back to a pack and a half a day.
| Source:
SFGate.com
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| January 13, 2006 | -
U.S. troops continued to be plagued by improvised explosive devices, or IEDs. “They blow up,” said a Marine corporal, “and you can't find the triggerman. You're mad, and you just want to kill someone, and you can't find them.”
| Source:
The Wall Street Journal/A1
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| December 2, 2005 | - Ten U.S. Marines were killed by a roadside bomb in Fallujah.
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BBC News
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| November 30, 2005 | - Operation Steel Hammer, intended to end Al Qaeda operations in Hit, west of Baghdad, was launched with a force of 1,500 U.S. Marines, 500 U.S. Army soldiers, and 500 Iraqi soldiers.
| Source:
ABC News
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| November 3, 2005 | - In the Philippines five U.S. Marines were arrested for raping a woman they met at a karaoke bar.
| Source:
BBC News
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| October 3, 2005 | - The Marines were recruiting on Craigslist.
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WCBS
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| February 21, 2005 | - Eight suicide bombings killed ninety-one people in Iraq, and United States Marines and Iraqi security forces were fighting insurgents in Ramadi, seventy-five miles west of Baghdad.
| Source 1:
The Age
Source 2:
New York Times
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| February 1, 2005 | - A Marine general described the pleasures of shooting Afghan men.
| Source:
NBC San Diego
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| November 17, 2004 | - A U.S. Marine was caught on videotape as he shot and killed a wounded, apparently unarmed man in a Falluja mosque.
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AP
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| March 1, 2004 | - President Jean-Bertrand Aristide fled Haiti as a rebel army of thugs and former death-squad members approached Port-au-Prince, which was being terrorized by thugs loyal to the president; President Bush sent in the Marines to prepare for a multinational peacekeeping force.
| Source:
Reuters
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| October 19, 2003 | - The U.S. Marines pressed charges against eight reservists in the death of an Iraqi prisoner, who was apparently tortured.
| Source:
New York Times
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| January 23, 2001 | - Ospreys have crashed four times since 1991; nineteen marines died in the most recent crash.
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