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December 30, 2019

Faulty Equipment, Lapsed Training, Repeated Warnings: How a Preventable Disaster Killed Six Marines

Marine commanders did not act on dozens of pleas for additional manpower, machinery and time. When a training exercise ended in death, leadership blamed the very men they had neglected.

Robert Faturechi, Megan Rose, T. Christian Miller ProPublica Dec 2019 40min Permalink