The Marine Corps today issued guidance that further restricts civilians from operating military equipment or taking part in military exercises involving such things as life-fire training or throwing live hand grenades. In the wake of the Feb. 9 collision of the Navy attack submarine Greenville and the Japanese fishing trawler Ehime Maru, which killed nine Japanese, Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld ordered a moratorium on civilians operating any military equipment. The Greenville was carrying 15 civilian guests on the day of...
