Day 2 Operation Khanjar - Marines enter key centres in Helmand

Marines began to secure key centres in Helmand on Friday.  Operation Khanjar which aims at pushing out the Taliban entered Day 2. Neither US or NATO troops have operated in this area in large numbers. ...

Name Of Marine Released After Fatal Motorcycle Crash

Marines have been getting into a lots of motorcycle accidents lately.  The fatalities are at an all time high.  My guess is that they have PTSD from too many deployments. Here is a real tragic story I...

Fourth Victim From F-18 Crash Found

Here is the latest news on the recent San Diego  Marine Corps. airplane crash.  It looks as though at least four people sufferred wrongful deaths so far."December 10, 2008 (by Otto Smyth) According to reports by San Diego airplane accident lawyers, the fourth victim...

Can You Sue the U.S. Marines for the San Diego F-18 Crash?

I received several calls from news agencies today about who the people injured in the F-18 crash in San Diego could sue.  There is not really any good info out there, so I decided to be the  resident expert attorney, step up, take some time off trial prep and bring...

Marines Barred From Filming Commercial on Streets of San Francisco

"They're the strong and the proud, but the Marines aren't free to stand on the streets of San Francisco. The Silent Drill Platoon of the U.S. Marine Corps wasn't allowed to be filmed Sept. 11 on California Street...

Haditha Massacre: Iraq’s Mai Lai

In the wake of the new U.S. scandal in Iraq, the Haditha massacre which involves the U.S. Marines’ unjustified killing of about 25 Iraqi civilians, the United for Peace and Justice, (UFPJ), a coalition of...

A smaller scale Mai Lai in Iraq?

"According to eyewitnesses and local officials interviewed over the past 10 weeks, the civilians who died in Haditha on Nov. 19 were killed not by a roadside bomb but by the Marines themselves, who went on a rampage in the village after the attack, killing 15 unarmed Iraqis...

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