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May 25, 2006

Possible Marine Court Martials

The system is working, and the investigation is going forward:

“If the allegations are substantiated, the Marine Corps will pursue appropriate legal and administrative actions against those responsible,” said Col. David Lapan, a spokesman at Marine Corps headquarters.

“The investigations are ongoing, therefore any comment at this time would be inappropriate and could undermine the investigatory and possible legal process,” he said. “As soon as the facts are known and decisions on future actions are made, we will make that information available to the public to the fullest extent allowable.” Murtha, an outspoken war critic and retired Marine colonel, has maintained for several weeks that the reality of the Hadithah incident was far more violent than the original reports suggested.

Maybe Murtha should just STFU and let the facts be researched?

Of course, since he's already made up his mind to score his political points, I doubt that will happen

Posted by Mr. Bingley at May 25, 2006 07:48 AM

Comments

Let me be the first pedant to remind you that that ought to be "courts martial."

Posted by: Dan Collins at May 25, 2006 08:03 AM

Is it? Cool. So it is like the plural of "Bill of lading" which is "bills of lading."

Posted by: Mr. Bingley at May 25, 2006 08:06 AM

Yes, it's sort of like that, except that "martial" is an adjective, and "of lading" is a prepositional phrase. It's more like "adjutants general."

Posted by: Dan Collins at May 25, 2006 11:00 AM

Or Sergeants Major.

It's a froggish thing.

Posted by: Mike Rentner at May 25, 2006 11:40 AM

Heh. Reminds me of a guy I used to work with, a crusty old ecuadorian fellow. He used to say "I'm going to make photos copies." Heh.

Posted by: Mr. Bingley at May 25, 2006 11:59 AM

So what you guys are saying is that I shouldn't have changed all those copies to "The Brother Karamazovs"?

Posted by: Ken Summers at May 25, 2006 12:21 PM

Reminds me of a guy I used to work with, a crusty old ecuadorian fellow.

You should also remember that was during your stint as des monde tutu in the "corps de ballet".

Posted by: tree hugging sister at May 25, 2006 03:40 PM

Sadly I don't remember much from those days, Sis, other than the visceral distaste I've developed for pink slippers.

Posted by: Mr. Bingley at May 26, 2006 07:23 AM

Ha! The Word Guy is on the radio right now and covered these plurals, the specific example being "teaspoonsful" vs. "teaspoonfuls".

Teaspoonsful, by the way, is correct.

Posted by: Ken Summers at May 26, 2006 10:19 AM

RsPM, not RPMs, you dolt!

Posted by: Dan Collins at May 26, 2006 11:52 AM

But Dan, how much is that in MsPH?

Posted by: Ken Summers at May 26, 2006 12:32 PM

Ken,
It's hard to say just now. My mechanic hit me over the head with a tire iron.

Posted by: Dan Collins at May 26, 2006 03:02 PM

I hate it when that happens...

Posted by: Ken Summers at May 26, 2006 03:44 PM