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Navy Launches Its Own Investigation into Fatal Marine Corps AAV Accident Boatswain’s Mate 3rd Class Malik Berry directs a Japanese amphibious assault vehicle in the well deck of the amphibious transport dock ship USS Somerset (LPD 25) during Exercise Iron Fist 2019. (Devin M. Langer/U.S. Navy) 4 May 2021 The Navy is reviewing its role in an at-sea accident that killed eight Marines and one sailor, marking the fourth investigation into what leaders have called a truly preventable tragedy. Vice Adm. Scott Conn, the head of U.S. Third Fleet, was directed to launch a command investigation into ...

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By ERIKA I. RITCHIE | The Orange County Register | Published: May 1, 2021 SANTA ANA, Calif. (Tribune News Service) — The Marine Corps' top leaders will speak before a Congressional committee on Monday, May 3, addressing lawmakers' concern about a "lack of safety" and an uptick in training accidents. The appearance was prompted by a recently released investigation into the most deadly accident the Corps has had training with the amphibious assault vehicles that have been in use since the 1970s. With the number of military training accidents and fatalities outpacing combat deaths in recent...

Chad is plunged into deadly civil war. Thank Obama. Timothy P. Carney © Evan Vucci From left, Marine Commandant Gen. James Amos, President Barack Obama, Sasha Obama, and first lady Michelle Obama look on during the Marine Barracks Evening Parade, on Friday, June 27, 2014, in Washington. (AP Photo/ Evan Vucci) Nobel Peace Prize Winner Barack Obama in 2011 illegally launched a drive-by war in Libya (because regime-change wars have great track records in the Muslim world) and the world continues to bear the negative effects. The war was a bad idea at the time. Obama never soug...

Lawmakers Question General's Prestigious Pentagon Assignment After Fatal AAV Accident U.S. Marine Corps Maj. Gen. Robert F. Castellvi, the commanding general of 1st Marine Division, delivers remarks during a morning colors ceremony at Marine Corps Base Camp Pendleton, Calif., March 7, 2019. (Ryan Kierkegaard/U.S. Marine Corps) 19 Apr 2021 The Marine Corps' decision to put a general in charge of the office that investigates serious claims of wrongdoing after he was found to bear some responsibility for training failures leading to a fatal accident that killed nine troops is under scrutiny from...