Marine beaten to death at Camp Pendleton

MSNBC.com ^ | 11/09/11 | NBC, msnbc.com and news services

[ColdOne]

CAMP PENDLETON, Calif. — A 19-year-old found dead in his Camp Pendleton barracks had been beaten to death by a fellow Marine, investigators say.

Lance Cpl. Mario Arias Jr., from Canoga Park, Calif., was attacked at the San Diego County base over the weekend, authorities said.

The air crew trainee, from Marine Light Attack Helicopter Training Squadron 303, Marine Aircraft Group 39, 3rd Marine Aircraft Wing, enlisted in August 2010.

The Naval Criminal Investigation Service said the suspect is being treated in a hospital for "significant injuries" sustained when he jumped from a third-floor balcony.

Ed Buice, spokesman for NCIS at its headquaters in Quantico, Va., told msnbc.com that neither the suspect's identity nor the hospital where he is being treated would be released until charges had been brought.

[Osage Orange]

What's a kaserne?

[ErnBatavia]

Yes and a big new hospital coming up by the I-5 gate in O-side.

Does Oceanbag (that's what we called it) still have that stupid "Tan your hide in Oceanside" banner?

I spent Christmas of '67 in the isolation ward of the old 'Mainside' base hospital, which then was a huge, meandering one-story maze that covered acres it seemed. I'd been on mess duty as "Salad Man" with my bare arms mixing greens all day long when I came down with Rubella a/k/a German Measles........heh; I started a plague.

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[morphing libertarian]

Thanx.

I think the base hospital is now 4-5 stores. Still run by the Navy.

The new one will be much larger. They say the’ll be doing therapy for the wounded there.

Haven’t seen that sign. We live downtown and we fondly call the downtown Marinetown. Our son was at CP Camp Marguerita until he got embassy duty, MSG.

[A.A. Cunningham]

Did you read the article or just the excerpt?