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Marine Corps Times
Oct. 29, 2007

Commandant visits Marines, fire evacuees

By Gidget Fuentes

CAMP PENDLETON, Calif. — Before weekend liberty was sounded, the top Marine
stopped by San Mateo, an isolated infantry camp that last week became a temporary
evacuee site for families and fellow leathernecks after two wildfires blazed across parts of
Camp Pendleton for most of the week.

A faint hint of smoke hung in the ocean-cooled air at San Mateo as several hundred
Marines watched Gen. James Conway on Friday afternoon step from a Huey helicopter
across the 5th Marines Regiment’s parade deck.

Conway, joined by the top enlisted Marine, Sgt. Maj. Carlton Kent, motioned for the
desert camouflage-clad men to gather around him. The commandant had traveled from
the East Coast, and Kent from Texas where he had visited wounded Marines at the
military’s burn center.

“Thank you,” Conway told the crowd, which included about 100 family members and
California Department of Forestry and Fire Protection officials. “You made us proud.”

“This was the center of national, arguably international, attention throughout the past
week,” he said, noting that throughout his recent travels people asked him, “How are we
doing at Camp Pendleton?”

As a dozen sizeable wildfires burned across San Diego County last week, forcing the
evacuations of more than a half-million homes, several fires flared up on the 198-square-
mile training base in the county’s northwestern section. The Rice fire, which sparked near
the town of Fallbrook, just southeast of the base, prompted the base to issue
precautionary warnings for residents of four southeastern housing areas to evacuate.

The largest fire on base, called the Horno fire, began last Tuesday, threatening Camp
Horno — home to 1st Marines — and the nearby School of Infantry and Staff NCO
Academy. It prompted base officials to evacuate those areas to the safer confines of
Camp San Mateo. But the Horno fire continued to expand, crossing Interstate 5 twice
south of the San Onofre Nuclear Power Plant.

Later, into the early-morning hours, the Horno fire crept toward the northern housing
areas, reaching the hillsides around San Onofre Peak, across from the San Mateo creek
bed. Home to officers, noncommissioned officers and staff NCOs, the hillside San Onofre
neighborhoods overlook the freeway and the Pacific Ocean from an area that includes an
exchange complex, child development center and elementary school.

About 3 a.m. on Oct. 24, military police warned San Onofre residents to evacuate, and
some joined evacuated Marines at San Mateo.

“People were uncertain. They left their homes with a fire coming,” said Lt. Col. Bob
“Ogre” McCarthy, regimental executive officer who became the de facto camp
commander. “We welcomed them. We let them know that our house was their house.”

San Mateo quickly swelled by 800 temporary residents.

“The chow hall extended its hours. The PX extended its hours. It was a collaborative
effort,” said 1st Lt. Lawton King, a 5th Marines spokesman.

And when the evacuated families and their fellow Marines arrived, leathernecks with 5th
Marines — many of them small-unit leaders — got working around the camp,
coordinating places to accommodate the evacuees, get them fed and keeping them busy.
Marines played with the kids, and asphalt lots became small skateboarding parks. “It was
an adventure for the children,” McCarthy said.

Ironically, that week, 5th Marines was in the throes of a pre-deployment command field
exercise. When word of the wildfires came, McCarthy said, the staff at the regimental
operations center shifted their attention to the fires and to what became a local
humanitarian mission.

“It was Marines and sailors taking care of Americans, and they did a great job,” McCarthy
said. “You’re not used to going into your own community.”

The unexpected mission gave junior Marines and NCOs the chance to step up to the
plate in true fashion with the Corps’ “strategic corporal” philosophy, said King, noting,
“Decision-making had to be pushed down, it had to be decentralized.”

Associated Press
Oct. 30, 2007

Calif. firefighters want Marines' help

By MICHAEL R. BLOOD

LOS ANGELES — State firefighters want the Marines to commit to battling California
wildfires after confusion over flight rules and the availability of military aircraft left some
helicopters grounded early on in last week's deadly blazes.

The California National Guard and the Navy train each year with state firefighters, and
the drills pay off when aircraft are called in to fight fires, officials say.

But the Marines, whose Camp Pendleton base was close to the worst of the fires, have
no comparable agreement, even though the state for years has recognized the need to
improve how its military aircraft are deployed in wildfires.

"It would take time and effort, but it's a commitment the Marine Corps should make," said
Mike Padilla, aviation chief for the state Department of Forestry and Fire Protection.

Maj. Alan Crouch, spokesman for Marine Corps Installation West in Southern California,
said he couldn't immediately comment on the possibility of entering into an agreement to
train with state firefighters.

"We will continue to work closely with local officials and support their efforts," Crouch said.

The Associated Press reported last week that Marine, Navy and National Guard
helicopters were grounded because state personnel required to be on board weren't
immediately available. And the National Guard's two newest C-130 cargo planes couldn't
help because they've yet to be outfitted with tanks needed to carry thousands of gallons
of fire retardant.

The need for an agreement with the Marines "is very evident. When we have
emergencies like this and you want to put those assets to work, you want to make sure
they can easily blend into the operation," he said.
Under current rules, Padilla said, Marine helicopters are not available during the early
stages of fires, when quick action can mean the difference between limited damage and
potential tragedy. The Iraq war stood in the way of an earlier agreement with the Marines,
he said.

Three years ago, a panel appointed by Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger said finding ways to
quickly get military helicopters and planes airborne to battle out-of-control wildfires should
be a "high priority." Yet, last week, delays launching aircraft revealed a system still
suffering from communication and planning shortfalls.

The Governor's Blue Ribbon Fire Commission, formed after 2003 wildfires destroyed
more than 3,600 homes, urged the state to clarify and improve policies and regulations
for using military aircraft in firefighting. The report also recommended a host of other
changes, including buying new helicopters and fire engines.

Schwarzenegger said as far back as September 2004 that his administration was working
with the federal government to make sure plans to use military helicopters and airplanes
were "efficient and effective." However, when the latest fires flamed out of control Oct. 21,
not all available military aircraft were quickly pressed into service.

The problems were highlighted by Orange County Fire Authority Chief Chip Prather, who
said last week he could have gotten control of a blaze near Irvine in its early stages with
more support from aircraft.

"It's very troubling that something that was identified as a high priority doesn't appear to
me to have been treated with the urgency and respect that it deserved," said state
Assemblyman Pedro Nava, a Santa Barbara Democrat who heads the Joint Legislative
Committee on Emergency Services and Homeland Security.

Nava has promised hearings as soon as mid-November to review the state's response to
the wildfires.

The state's preparedness could get tested again this week, when moderate Santa Ana
winds are expected to return to Southern California. The state is deploying aircraft in
preparation for possible fires, Schwarzenegger said.

"There are inevitably mistakes that have been made, certain things that fell short. It think
it's not the right time now to point fingers," Schwarzenegger said.

Military aircraft are called in to supplement state and local fire resources when needed.
That was the case last week when wind-fanned flames devoured more than a half-million
acres and destroyed more than 2,000 homes.

After insisting for days that the winds were the reason some helicopters didn't get
airborne more quickly, Schwarzenegger acknowledged Saturday that the firefighting
effort might have been more effective if more state "fire spotters," also called helicopter
managers, had been available at the outset.
The spotters play a crucial role coordinating water or retardant drops, and under state
rules each federal helicopter must carry one.

Stars and Stripes

Nov. 1, 2007

Marines still in custody in alleged gang-rape case

By Travis J. Tritten

Four Marines accused of an alleged gang-rape in Hiroshima remain under investigation

by Japanese and U.S. military authorities, a spokesman for Marine Corps Air Station
Iwakuni said Tuesday.

The men were questioned by Hiroshima police on Friday, Monday and Tuesday while a
U.S. command representative and military police were present, Maj. Guillermo Canedo
said.

Hiroshima police refused to comment Tuesday on the investigation.

The Marines remain in U.S. custody and have been held in confinement cells on the air
station since a woman filed allegations with Japanese authorities that the men raped her
early on the morning of Oct. 14.

“The matter is still under investigation,” Canedo said. “The Japanese are continuing with
their investigation, and we are cooperating fully.”

Last week, the Kyodo news service quoted anonymous sources saying Japanese
investigators would not seek arrest warrants due to “ambiguities” in the woman’s
testimony.

The Hiroshima police and the Naval Criminal Investigative Service are handling the case
jointly.

If the investigation results in Japanese arrest warrants, the military must decide whether
to hand the Marines over to Japanese authorities.

Under the U.S.-Japan Status of Forces Agreement, service members charged with
Japanese crimes remain in military custody until indicted if they are being detained on
military property.

However, a “gentlemen’s agreement” was reached to hand over suspects accused of

violent crimes after the public outcry caused by the abduction and rape of a 12-year-old
Okinawan girl by two Marines and a Navy medic in 1995.
The allegations have stirred some tensions from Iwakuni residents and municipal
politicians, who planned rallies and filed protest letters, according to Japanese media
reports.

But the outcry has so far not matched the protests over the 1995 rape in Okinawa.

A midnight curfew for all service members at Iwakuni remains in effect until further notice.

Associated Press
Oct. 31, 2007

Iraq, Afghan vets at risk for suicides

By KIMBERLY HEFLING

WASHINGTON — Mary Gallagher did not get a knock at the door from a military chaplain
with news of her Marine husband's death in a faraway place. Instead, the Iraq war
veteran committed suicide eight months after returning home.

She is left wondering why.

It's a question shared by hundreds of families of Iraq and Afghanistan veterans who have
taken their own lives in a homecoming suicide pattern of a magnitude that is just starting
to emerge.

Preliminary Veterans Affairs Department research obtained by The Associated Press

reveals for the first time that there were at least 283 suicides among veterans who left the
military between the start of the war in Afghanistan on Oct. 7, 2001 and the end of 2005.

The numbers, while not dramatically different from society as a whole, provide the first
quantitative look at the toll on today's combat veterans and are reminiscent of the
increased suicide risk among returning soldiers in the Vietnam era.

Today's homefront suicide tally is running at least double the number of troop suicides in
the war zones as thousands of men and women return with disabling injuries and mental
health disorders that put them at higher risk.

A total of 147 troops have killed themselves in Iraq and Afghanistan since the start of the
wars, according to the Defense Manpower Data Center, which tracks casualties for the
Pentagon.

Add the number of returning veterans and the finding is that at least 430 of the 1.5 million
troops who have fought in the two wars have killed themselves over the past six years.
And that doesn't include people like Gallagher's husband who committed suicide after
their combat tours and while still in the military — a number the Pentagon says it doesn't
track.
That compares with at least 4,227 U.S. military deaths overall since the wars started —
3,840 in Iraq and 387 in and around Afghanistan.

In response, the VA is ramping up suicide prevention programs.

Research suggests that combat trauma increases the risk of suicide, according to the
National Center for Post Traumatic Stress Disorder. Difficulty dealing with failed
relationships, financial and legal troubles, and substance abuse are also risk factors
among troops, said Cynthia O. Smith, a Pentagon spokeswoman.

Families see the effects first hand.

"None of them come back without being touched a little," said Gallagher, a mother of
three whose husband, Marine Gunnery Sgt. James Gallagher, took his own life in 2006
inside their home at Camp Pendleton, Calif.

He was proud of his Iraq service, but she wonders whether he was bothered by the death
of his captain in Iraq or an incident in which he helped rescue a soldier who was in a fire
and later died. Shortly before his death, her husband was distraught over an assignment
change he saw as an insult, she said.

"His death contradicts the very person he was. It's very confusing and difficult to
understand," said Gallagher of Lynbrook, N.Y.

The family of another Iraq veteran who committed suicide, Jeffrey Lucey, 23, of
Belchertown, Mass., filed suit against the former VA secretary, alleging that bad care at
the VA was to blame.

And the family of Joshua Omvig, a 22-year-old Iraq war veteran from Davenport, Iowa,
who also committed suicide, successfully pushed Congress to pass a bill that President
Bush is expected to sign that requires the VA to improve suicide prevention care.

Suicides in Iraq have occurred since the early days of the war, but awareness was
heightened when the Army said its suicide rate in 2006 rose to 17.3 per 100,000 troops
— the highest in 26 years of record-keeping.

That compares with 9.3 per 100,000 for all military services combined in 2006 and 11.1
per 100,000 for the general U.S. population in 2004, the latest year statistics were
available. The Army has said the civilian rate for the same age and gender mix as in the
Army is 19 to 20 per 100,000 people.

Just looking at the VA's early numbers, Dr. Ira Katz, the VA's deputy chief patient care
service officer for mental health, said there does not appear to be an epidemic of suicides
among those who served in Iraq and Afghanistan who left the military.

Katz said post-traumatic stress disorder, depression and problem drinking increase a
person's suicide risk by two or three times, but the rate of suicide among those with those
conditions "is still very, very low."
Katz acknowledged, however, that it is too early to know the long-term ramifications for
those who served in the wars and said the VA "is very intensely involved in increasing
suicide prevention."

"We're not doing it because there's an epidemic in returning veterans, though each death
of a returning veteran is a tragedy and it's important to prevent it," Katz said.

The VA and Defense Department have hired more counselors and made other
improvements in mental health care, including creation of a veterans suicide prevention
hotline.

At the VA's national suicide hotline center based in Canandaigua, N.Y., counselors have
taken more than 9,000 calls since July. Some callers are just looking for someone to talk
to. Others are concerned family members. Callers who choose to give their names can
opt to be met at a local VA center by a suicide prevention counselor; more than 120
callers have been rescued by emergency personnel — some after swallowing pills or with
a gun nearby, according to the center.

"It's sad, but I think in the other way it's very exciting because already we've seen really
sort of people being able to change their lives around because of the access to resources
they've been able to get," said Jan Kemp, who oversees the call center.

Penny Coleman, whose ex-husband committed suicide after returning from Vietnam, said
she doesn't buy what she calls the "we didn't expect this" mentality about suicide.

"If you'd chosen to pay attention after Vietnam you would have and should have
anticipated it would happen again," said Coleman, who published a book on the subject
last year.

One government study of Army veterans from Vietnam found they were more likely to die
from suicide than other veterans in the first five years after leaving the military, although
the study found that the likelihood dissipated over time. There is still heated debate,
however, over the total number of suicides by Vietnam veterans; the extent to which it
continues even today is unknown.

One major hurdle in stopping suicide is getting people to ask for help. From 20 percent to
50 percent of active duty troops and reservists who returned from war reported
psychological problems, relationship problems, depression and symptoms of stress
reactions, but most report that they have not sought help, according to a report from a
military mental health task force.

"It's only when it becomes painful will someone seek counseling," said Chris Ayres,
manager of the combat stress recovery program at the Wounded Warrior Project, a
private veterans' assistance group based in Jacksonville, Fla. "That's usually how it
happens. Nobody just walks in, because it's the hardest thing for a male, a Marine, a
type-A personality figure to just go in there and say, 'Hey, I need some help.'"
While not suicidal, Ayres, 37, a former Marine captain from the Houston area who had
the back of his right leg blown off in Iraq, has experienced episodes related to his post-
traumatic stress disorder and said he worried about being stigmatized if he got help.

He's since learned to manage through counseling, and he's encouraging other veterans
to get help.

Ayres is among 28,000 Americans injured in the war, more than 3,000 seriously.

In a study published earlier this year, researchers at Portland State University found that
veterans were twice as likely to commit suicide as male nonveterans. High gun
ownership rates, along with debilitating injuries and mental health disorders, were all risk
factors that seemed to put the veterans at greater risk, said Mark Kaplan, one of the
researchers.

While veterans from Iraq and Afghanistan were not included in the study, Kaplan said
that given the nature of the injuries of the recent wars and the strain of long and repeated
deployments, the newer generation of veterans could be at risk for suicide.

Kaplan said primary care physicians should ask patients whether they are veterans, and
if the answer is yes, inquire about their mental health.

"This is war unlike other wars and we don't know the long-term implications and the
hidden injuries of war," Kaplan said.

Dr. Dan Blazer, a professor of psychiatry at Duke University Medical Center who served
this year on the military's mental health task force, said improvements in care will likely
help some veterans, but he's concerned about this generation. He said he treats World
War II veterans still struggling mentally with their military experience.

"There's still going to be individuals that just totally slip through all of these safety nets
that we construct to try to help things in the aftermath," Blazer said.

Suicide, Blazer said, "is a cost of war. It's a big one."

Marine Corps Times

Oct. 30, 2007

Pentagon resists tighter base access rules

By Rick Maze

The Defense Department wants congressional negotiations to scale back on plans to

improve base security because of worries that making it too hard for legitimate visitors to
get onto installations could be disruptive without necessarily making anyone safer.
At issue is a provision of the House version of the 2008 defense authorization bill that
would prohibit unescorted civilians, including vendors, contractor employees and visitors,
from being allowed on a military base without first undergoing a background check.

Under the House proposal, the background investigation would have to include checks of
the FBI’s criminal files, the Homeland Security Department’s terrorist watch list, a search
for outstanding warrants and verification of citizenship.

The provision was added to the bill after the discovery in May of a plot by a group of New
Jersey men to launch at attack on Fort Dix by using free access to the base that had
been granted to pizza delivery vehicles.

In a letter to lawmakers detailing disagreements with pending legislation, defense officials

said the House plan “would impose exceptionally onerous requirements” on military
installations, and asked that it be dropped during negotiations to write a compromise bill.

The federal government already faces an “overwhelming” volume of requests for

background investigations that has slowed the federal hiring process. Stiff requirements
for extensive checks on all unescorted visitors could interfere with the more important
pre-hiring investigations, defense officials said. They also listed some practical problems,
such as the possibility that air shows or open houses on bases could be discontinued.

Other problems listed include the possible end of food deliveries to barracks or to people
working late; problems getting taxis, tow trucks and repair services onto installations; and
an end to civilian traffic through bases, such as the buses that travel through Fort Belvoir,
Va., and the train station at Marine Corps Base Quantico, Va.

Offices needing maintenance on equipment, such as a photocopy machine, also would

have to ensure an escort is made available for that repair person, or that the repair
person had been cleared through a prior background check.

Negotiators working on the defense bill are hoping to finish by mid-November. The new
policy, if it remains in the bill, would not take effect until the bill is signed into law.

Inquirer (Philippines)
Oct. 31, 2007

RP-US war games successful, say commanders

By Tonette Orejas

CLARK FREEPORT, Philippines -- Philippine and American military officials reported

success in Talon Vision ’08, saying the military exercise in Luzon had further honed the
ability of both nations’ troops to deal with terror and disasters, and undertake
humanitarian missions in communities.
"Our activities in the last two weeks were one big success," said Colonel Alexander Bote,
operations director of the Philippine Air Force's 600th Air Base Wing and exercise co-
director, during closing rites here on Tuesday.

"We have prepared to fight terrorism and other international callings. We have
strengthened our bond and relationship," Bote said.

His co-director, Colonel Ben Mathews II, commanding officer of the United States Marine
Aircraft Group 36, called the exercise "very successful."

Under Talon Vision, he said units under the Rapid Deployment Force of the Armed
Forces of the Philippines (AFP) and the III Marine Expeditionary Force (MEU) had flown
460 sorties and 974 flight hours of defense air combat training, aerial delivery practice,
and other tactical training flights.

Mathews credited Filipino and American pilots for showing "superior tactical skills" and
"safe execution."

Flight maneuvers and jump-offs were done over Clark in Pampanga, Crow Valley in
Tarlac, Fort Magsaysay in Nueva Ecija, Subic in Zambales, Sangley Point in Cavite and
Laguna.

The PAF's fleet of aircraft flew with the modern aircraft of the US Marine Corps.

But Bote said PAF pilots did not get to fly the American planes.

"We were not allowed to fly their aircraft. What we did was do maneuvers together so our
pilots learned to anticipate and react with joint forces," he said.

For Bote, one of the best parts of the exercise was the "subject matter exchange" or the
sharing by experts.

For Mathews, the "critically important" part of the exercise was the medical and dental
missions done with the Philippine Army's 2nd Infantry Division in Laguna's eight villages.
These served more than 10,000 residents.

The joint forces also built outdoor toilets and concrete floors for at least 36 houses,
constructed a 1,600-meter farm-to-market road, and repaired six classrooms in Laguna.

The US military spent $250,000 (P10,962,500) for the training and civic missions,
Mathews said.

"Anytime you do bilateral training, when you learn the techniques and procedures of your
ally and then they learn how we do business, it's a win for us," he said.

"Let's just say something critical happens, something dangerous happens…lets' say the
typhoons return or there was a tsunami or anything like that. Anytime you have an
opportunity to train with the partner in this region, it helps not only the US side but the
side of the country where we are visiting," Mathews said.

Marine Corps Times

Oct. 30, 2007

Mistrial declared in training-injury lawsuit

By Gidget Fuentes

OCEANSIDE, Calif. — The wildfires that raged through San Diego County last week
disrupted the region’s legal affairs, including a civil lawsuit filed by a former Marine who is
suing a Hollywood producer and training company.

Just two days into what was expected to be a two-week trial, Superior Court Judge John
S. Meyer declared a mistrial in the case because the wildfires forced the courts to shut
down for the entire week.

The judge set Nov. 26 as the start date for a new trial, said Robert Gaglione, a San Diego
attorney representing former Lance Cpl. Jesse Klingler.

Klingler, 21, was wounded in a Sept. 18, 2004, training exercise at Miramar Marine Corps
Air Station in San Diego. During the exercise he was taken hostage, tied and bound
before a hired actor playing the role of an insurgent, who then pointed an AK-47 assault
rifle and fired two blank rounds at close range.

The former rifleman from Tennessee was wounded by the two bursts the AK-47, and he
claims he suffers from constant pain and post-traumatic stress because of the incident.
He’s suing Strategic Operations Inc., a tactical training company that hired actors to
serve as role-players for the pre-deployment exercise at Miramar’s Camp Elliott. He’s
also suing producer Stu Segall, the company’s owner; and the actor, Ali “Rocky” Mohsen,
for an undisclosed amount of money.

Klingler, who was assigned to Lima Company, 3rd Battalion, 3rd Marine Regiment, was
discharged honorably from the Corps in 2005.

Fredericksburg (Va.) Free Lance-Star

Oct. 31, 2007

Former Marine, Quantico contractor’s twin sons drown

BY KEITH EPPS
Family and friends surrounded Paul and Melinda Ashton late yesterday afternoon at their
home on Easter Lane in Stafford County.

Their parents were there, along with their siblings and children. Others trickled in and out
of the house.

But the focus of the day was the two who weren't there. The Ashtons had just buried their
precious 15-month-old twin sons, Jacob and Joshua.

The boys drowned in a tragic bathtub incident a week ago in the home.

Paul Ashton said his wife had put the twins down for a nap earlier that afternoon and was
helping her oldest child with a school project when the twins somehow made their way
into an upstairs bathroom and ran the water.

Ashton said he's not sure exactly how long the twins were in the tub, but "it was long
enough it was long enough."

By the time the babies were discovered and rescue workers got to the house, the boys
were in serious trouble. They were pronounced dead early Thursday at the VCU Medical
Center in Richmond.

"We love them so much," Ashton said yesterday. "[The funeral] is the end of an incredibly
painful and exhausting experience."

As is the case in any such incident, the Stafford Sheriff's Office is investigating the
incident. No charges have been filed and a police source said this week that none are
anticipated.

Ashton says that while there was no criminal neglect, that doesn't diminish the pain he
and his family are experiencing. The couple has three other children.

He said he and his wife had set up the house in a way that they thought provided
adequate safety for the children.

They knew that water held a particular lure for the twins. They'd taken measures to keep
them out of the toilet and the dogs' water bowl.

Still, Ashton said, they had no reason to anticipate what happened last week.

"In hindsight, it's easy to make judgments and to second-guess yourself," he said. "But
sometimes, things just happen."

Jacob had just started walking, while Joshua had been walking for a couple of weeks.
They apparently used their newfound mobility to get past a security gate and make the
the ill-fated foray into the bathroom.
Ashton said his family's spirits have been helped immeasurably by the response they've
gotten from the community.

He said neighbors and strangers alike have showered them with love and assistance.

"It's been fantastic," Ashton said. "It's reaffirmed our faith in humankind."

The Ashtons moved to Stafford four years ago. They came here from Camp Pendleton,
Calif., where Paul Ashton served in the Marines. He now works as a business analyst.

Though they're hurting now, Ashton said he and his family still feel blessed. They still
have a beautiful home and three other wonderful children, he said.

"We're going to miss [the twins] terribly," he said. "But every minute of those 15 months
and 13 days we had with them was a blessing."

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Oct. 30, 2007

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