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Marines Get Carded
TOKYO – The Marines have tried curfews, drinking restrictions and plain old jawboning to cut down crime and controversy on Okinawa, a key center of U.S. military...
Two Marines Killed in Morocco V-22 Crash
After 12 years without a crash of its cherished V-22 tilt-rotor aircraft, the Marines lost one Wednesday in Morocco. The accident killed two of the four Marines...
The Military: Another Downed Osprey Has Marines Defensive
Last week's crash of a V-22 Osprey has sent the revolutionary aircraft program into a tailspin, if not a fatal dive. Four Marines--including the corps's most...
Military Spending: Add Cash Woes to Osprey's Crash Woes
The recent crash of a Marine V-22 Osprey tilt-rotor is raising questions about the corps's need for the hybrid aircraft. New cost figures for the fledgling...
Marines’ $22.2 Billion Mistake?
It used to be the Marines were the most penurious of the military services: -- The Army replaced its AH-1 Cobras with AH-64 Apaches, but the Marines kept flying...
Mark Twain’s Cyber Perspective
So the response to Tuesday's Washington Post story that computer hackers had stolen secrets associated with U.S. weapons was Pavlovian. Within hours, it was all...
V-22 Osprey: A Flying Shame
It's hard to imagine an American weapons program so fraught with problems that Dick Cheney would try repeatedly to cancel it — hard, that is, until you get to...
Iraq Churns On
Complex stories call for journalists who are both hardheaded and clear thinking. The story of the creation, the many near death experiences and the ultimate...
The Osprey: Worse Than Feared
The Marines are still shaking with anger and concern over last week's revelation that one of their own apparently ordered maintenance records for the corps'...
Troops in Japan Told to Put A Cork In It
TOKYO – Don’t leave the base don’t take a drink and for God’s sake don’t break the law That’s what commanders are telling US troops in Japan after a series of...
