Dec 1st, 2008 · President-elect Obama made public Monday what has long been expected: He will nominate Sen. Hillary Clinton to be his secretary of state. Clinton will be part of a new national security team that includes other familiar faces. Robert Gates, the current secretary of defense, would stay at the Pentagon. For national security adviser, Obama has chosen retired Marine Gen. James Jones, a former NATO commander and commandant of the Marine Corps.
Keywords: security · national · president · public · commander · NATO · Pentagon · retired · Sen · adviser · secretary · Clinton
Nov 9th, 2008 · A new book out this week compiles poems and memoirs from women veterans. It's called, "Powder: Writing by Women in the Ranks, from Vietnam to Iraq." The women share experiences, such as interrogating suspected terrorists and fending off advances from Iraqi men. Host Liane Hansen talks to Charlotte Brock, a former Marine Corps officer who wrote an essay about trying to identify dead bodies in Iraq. Warning: Graphic content.
Keywords: terrorist · Iraq · officer · Liane Hansen · memoir · Vietnam · veterans · interrogator · poems · Graphic · Marine Corps · compilation
Jun 24th, 2008 · The creator of HBO's The Wire and a reporter for Rolling Stone discuss their latest endeavor, Generation Kill, the HBO seven-part series in which elite members of the Marine Corps confront the military bureaucracy in the midst of a new war.
Keywords: confrontation · military · Marine · creators · elitism · HBO · bureaucracy · Marine Corps · endeavor · emRolling · emGeneration
Apr 22nd, 2008 · New data shows the Army and Marine Corps brought in more recruits with felony convictions last year than in 2006. The number of soldiers with felony records more than doubled, to 511, and Marines with felonies rose to 350.
Keywords: 2006 · convicted · military · Marine · Soldiers · army · recruiting · felonies · felony · Marine Corps
Mar 20th, 2008 · A video of a Marine tossing a puppy off a cliff created quite a stir when millions saw it on YouTube. The Marine Corps even announced it was conducting an investigation, but the video might not be authentic. If it's a fake, it would be the latest in a long line of phonies.
Keywords: Marine · video · Torture · authenticate · investigators · cliffs · puppy · viral · Marine Corps · YouTube · phonies
Oct 30th, 2007 · Colby Vokey is the head of all Marine Corps defense lawyers in the western U.S. His recent retirement announcement said something troubling about the military court system. Vokey says that commanders and Bush administration officials have abused the system.
Keywords: administration · Lawyers · commander · military · Marine · retired · injustice · Marine Corps · defense · Colby Vokey · Vokey
Aug 9th, 2007 · The Marine Corps dropped charges against two Marines in the killings of 24 Iraqi civilians in Haditha. Two other enlisted men are charged with murder, and three other officers accused of failing to adequately investigate the deaths.
Keywords: Iraq · officer · civil · deaths · Marine · Marine Corps · Haditha
Aug 3rd, 2007 · Marine Corps squad leader Sgt. Lawrence Hutchins III was sentenced to 15 years in prison after jury deliberations Friday at Camp Pendleton, Calif. Hutchins was convicted of murdering an Iraqi man in Iraq during a frustrated search for an insurgent.
Keywords: Iraq · convicted · Prisons · Marine · Calif · insurgents · jury · deliberations · squad · Sgt · Marine Corps · Camp Pendleton
