Marines Dismissed, Withheld V-22 Maintenance Concerns Raised By JAG

By Christopher J. Castelli / March 1, 2001 at 5:00 AM
Marine Corps judge advocate general investigators raised concerns about the maintenance of the V-22 Osprey in a report on last April's fatal V-22 crash, but senior Marine Corps officials dismissed the concerns as irrelevant, according to documents obtained by Inside the Navy . Further, the Marine Corps redacted those concerns and other opinions and recommendations from copies of the report and withheld them under the Freedom of Information Act for the last seven months until yesterday, when ITN 's formal...

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