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Nine men died in the accident involving an amphibious assault vehicle July 30 in Southern California. Author: Associated Press Updated: 10:02 PM CDT May 3, 2021 SAN DIEGO, Calif — The Marine Corps inspector general, Major General Robert Castellvi, has been suspended amid the ongoing probes into last summers fatal sinking of a seafaring tank off the Southern California coast, a newspaper reported Monday. Nine men died in the accident involving an amphibious assa...

From 2005 to 2014, U-T photojournalist Nelvin C. Cepeda traveled regularly to Afghanistan embedded with Marines from Camp Pendleton. He looks back on what it was like seeing the war unfold abroad and at home. President Joe Biden’s announcement last week that all remaining U.S. troops will leave Afghanistan by Sept. 11, 2021, left Horr, now 32, buoyed by the possibility of finality — but with an unavoidable sense of déjà vu. “We’ve been here before,” said Horr, the director of govern...

The Marine was warned in 2019 about sharing racist material online, but an investigation began six months later after the posts made news.

But some say this case shows the military’s hard line on extremism is not absolute, that there is wiggle room in the policy for commanders to retain troops despite evidence of extremist activity — at least until their cases become public. Much of the social media activity cited by the investigation that led to Martin’s separation was already published on his accounts when his activity first came to his chain of command’s attention during the summer of 2019, Martin said during an intervi...

Ten pounds of C-4 plastic explosive is reportedly missing from Marine Corps Air Ground Combat Center Twentynine Palms