Posted on July 2, 2008 by yojoe
Staff Sergeant Frank Wuterich is one of the Marines charged with a crime relating to the killing of 24 civilians in Haditha, Iraq. Previously, the government attempted to subpoena unaired portions of an interview he did with CBS, for the program 60 Minutes. The military judge denied the request for the tapes. The government appealed [...]
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Posted on June 19, 2008 by yojoe
Marine Corps Joint Strike Fighter makes first flight.
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Posted on June 17, 2008 by yojoe
In a hearing on 17JUN08, a military judge, Col Stephen Folsom, USMC, dismissed all charges against LtCol Jeffrey Chessani. Col Folsom ruled that the decision to charge LtCol Chessani was a product of unlawful command influence (UCI). Col Folsom ruled,
the participation of Col. John Ewers as an investigator and report writer in the [...]
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Posted on June 16, 2008 by yojoe
Defense lawyers for LtCol Jeffrey Chessani believe all charges may be dropped. They base this on a signal from the military judge, Col Folsom, who previously scheduled a hearing for two days and has now changed the session to last one hour. At this session the military judge will rule on the motion [...]
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Posted on June 5, 2008 by yojoe
Lt Andrew Grayson was acquitted on 4JUN08.
According to reports:
Cheers erupted as the seven-officer panel cleared 1st Lt. Andrew Grayson, who was the first of three Marines to be tried in the biggest U.S. criminal case involving Iraqi deaths linked to the war. The verdict came just five hours after deliberations began.
Two Marines still face courts-martial [...]
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Posted on May 30, 2008 by yojoe
During the first day of trial, Lt Grayson’s defense counsel, Maj William Santmyer, told the jury
“Lieutenant Grayson is nothing more than a fall guy in a botched investigation under intense media pressure,”
The prosecution maintains that Lt Grayson lied to investigators to help cover up the killing of civilians in [...]
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Posted on May 28, 2008 by yojoe
The court-martial of Marine intelligence officer 1stLt Andrew Grayson began on 28MAY08. Lt Grayson is
accused of ordering a subordinate to delete photographs of the scene at Haditha, and making false official statements relating to the killing of 24 civilians in Haditha, Iraq. Lt Grayson is also charged with attempting to fraudulently leave the [...]
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Posted on May 23, 2008 by yojoe
The court martial of Lt Andrew Grayson is set to begin on 28MAY08. Lt Grayson charges for dereliction of duty, false official statement, and obstructing justice. All of the charges relate to his failure to investigate the events surrounding the killing of 24 civilians in Haditha, Iraq.
yojoe out
For more on Haditha:
Haditha
Haditha Update: History [...]
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Posted on May 23, 2008 by yojoe
This video is of the Marine Corps’s version of the Joint Strike Fighter, the F-35B.
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Posted on May 22, 2008 by yojoe
In a hearing aboard Camp Pendleton, a military judge, Col Folsom found that “top Marine Corps officers were unlawfully influenced by a general’s legal adviser when they decided to file criminal charges against a colonel whose troops killed two dozen civilians in the Iraqi city of Haditha in 2005″
This ruling came in the court-martial of [...]
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Posted on March 28, 2008 by yojoe
The court-martial of Lance Corporal Stephen B. Tatum, USMC, begins today, 28MAR08. LCpl Tatum faces the following charges:
Charge I: Violation of the UCMJ, Article 119 (Involuntary Manslaughter)
(Maximum punishment: dishonorable discharge, forfeiture of all pay and allowances, and confinement for 10 years):
Specification 1: by culpable negligence or while perpetrating an offense [...]
Filed under: GWOT, Haditha, Iraq, LCpl Stephen Tatum, Law, Marine Corps, Military, Military Law, USMC, War, War on Terrorism | 3 Comments »
Posted on March 20, 2008 by yojoe
Over at the definitive military-technology blog Danger Room, it is being reported that the engines on the V-22 Osprey are wearing out, much faster than expected. The Osprey is the tilt-rotor aircraft used by the Marine Corps for troop transport. It is capable of transporting 24 combat-loaded Marines 242 [...]
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