Marine Corps Investigating Possible Falsification of V-22 Maintenance Records

By Thomas Duffy / January 18, 2001 at 5:00 AM
Marine Corps Commandant Gen. James Jones has asked the service's inspector general to investigate whether the commanding officer of a Marine Corps V-22 training squadron based at New River, NC, asked Marines to falsify maintenance records on the squadron's aircraft, one of which crashed on Dec. 11, killing four Marines, the service announced today. Although the inspector general has not completed his review, the Marine Corps said "at this point there appears to be no relation between these allegations and...

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