“...the government reportedly spent $43 million investigating and prosecuting these Marines.”
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1906350/posts#23
What else could that money have purchased....
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In June, IMG won a contract for $8.4 million to build 16 mine-resistant ambush protected vehicles (MRAPs) to be used by the Marine Corps and other joint forces in Iraq and Afghanistan.
http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/ap/fn/5228946.html
or any of these DOD contracts
http://www.defenselink.mil/contracts/contract.aspx?contractid=3629
Bless you Ma for pointing that out.
While I am worried that this case will go before a court martial, at least so far it has been reasonably fair, considering the amount of questionable evidence used against these Marines.
And that $43 million was just for the investigation up to the Article 32. That number will climb through the Article 32s and court martials.