| 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.
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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.”
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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.”
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.”
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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.”
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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.
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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.”
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.”
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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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