A few good men. Yep, that's about what it's down to right about now.

I'm truly saddened by this report. These men have brought dishonor to all of us who have ever worn the Marine uniform. There is no punishment adequate for their crimes. Now, I will also say that the military is a perfect reflection of our society, so it really doesn't surprise me that criminal behavior in the military is on the rise. Realistically, I think that given the fact that the US has more than two million men and women wearing the uniform of their country, then these traitors must be a small percentage of the overall force. I proudly served for twenty two years. This incident is truly a disgrace to all who have served.

Hey if the drug cartels can get the stuff from our government why not the all the other foreign gangs? Equal Opportunity. Who's watch is all this happening on anyway?

I guess things have changed since I was in the Corps. We joined because we were patriotic. Nowadays many join to get off the block/hood, get off the farm, don't have a job, etc. But please don't discredit the entire Marine Corps because of a few @!$%#s. We have bad everywhere. Remember Clinton and what went on under his desk.

After 10+ years of 2 phony fiasco wars, should anyone be that surprised

You gotta be stupid, if you want to use that excuse, Obama (as the commander in chief) was responsible for this as well, but if you are logical individual you would understand the concept of individual responsibility. We aren't talking about kids, we are talking about adults who engaged (in fast in furious as well as this case) in illegal weapons trafficking. Just as these Marines are responsible for their actions so are the agents who engaged in the "fast and furious." Please stop with the partisan blaming and bs

Bad news just keeps on coming, boggling our minds with all the corruption going on in all branches government.

Whats the matter? Anyone connected to gangs should NEVER be allowed to enter military service It sounds like a major part of their business was dealing with gangs and I'm willing to bet it is gang members who managed to get into the military at the bottom of it all. Yes, it IS just a wild ass guess but I'll stick with it for now.

I'll say nothing about sales of things to foreign nations illegally. Too many major corporations do the same thing except that they'll pass everything thru dummy companies on its way to the customers. One thing that really bothers me is the sale of night vision equipment to gangs. Now it is going to be much easier for them to victimize people and will probably lead to the deaths of cops. For military members to have brought this about upon any part of the American people deserves the harshest punishment. This 40 month sentence stuff doesn't seem to be enough somehow.

Human nature is such that if you think you can get away with something, you will. It doesn't matter if you are in the military, the CEO of a corporation, a politician, a clergyman or a welfare mom. People will try to steal whatever they can get away with. You may think you are above temptation, but I guarantee if the value is high enough and you think the risk is low, you will become a thief. Steal any office supplies lately? Fudged a little on your tax returns? We may be flawed as humans, but it is in our nature.

Military trains its people to dehumanize the enemy so that they may kill them...if you were in that situtation, you would disrespect corpses too. Human nature is why we need regulations in every industry. When a politcian speaks about deregulation being a good thing, he is clearly figuring ways to profit from the lack of rules (and later claim that that law never worked).

Know a lot of you don't want to hear this, but this has been going on for decades in ALL the military......Spent 3 years in Vietnam (67-70), and every time I had a problem getting a piece of equipment I needed I went to the Black Market in DaNang....The military (usually officers and higher ranking NCOs) that controlled these things sold them on the sly.

And the best part???????? The US govt refused to do anything to these Vietnamese vendors because we were "guests" in their country.

In other words, this story is rated "so what else is new".

Haliburton charged us $845 million dollars "over-billing" for meals for our troops, and still hasn't paid it back....

AND they got their contract renewed by the Defense Department.....The whole system is corrupt.

Doesn't our government sell equipment (purchased/constructed with tax $$)) to other "governments"?

When you are led by a set of agencies that follow a foreign policy devoid of honor how can you expect anything less from them? We have trivialized their sacrifice by our petty predilections relative to our world involvement. These guys are smart and they know they are just being used to satisfy the war game fantasies of a few fringe conservative groups in this country. We trained them to defend a flag and a nation and instead they are basically corporate employees. And isn't that what corporations/people do...sell things?

How bought this!

More to Mexico Gunrunning Op Than We’ve Been Told by Feds?

By Victor Thorn

No article on the illegal arms trade
could be complete without an acknowledgment of the United States
official gunrunning program “Fast and Furious,” which leads directly to
Eric Holder’s Department of Justice. But could an even larger conspiracy
be at hand?

On July 13, 2011 Diana Valdez of El Paso Times
highlighted how a notorious Mexican gang called the Zetas was smuggling
guns through El Paso, Texas. Ms. Valdez quoted Phil Jordan, an ex-CIA
agent and former member of El Paso’s DEA Intelligence Center .

Jordan said, “They [Zetas] are
purchasing weapons in the Dallas area and are flying them to El Paso,
[where] they are taking them across the border into Juarez.”

Political columnist Bob Owens quoted
Jordan as well in a July 22, 2011 article. According to Jordan, “The
Obama administration is running guns to the violent Zetas cartel through
the direct commercial sales of military-grade weapons. . . . What’s
ironic is that the DEA also uses the same Fort Worth airport for some of
its operations.”

To support these claims, Owens spoke
with Robert Plumlee, a former CIA operative who has ties to the
Iran-contra affair, the CIA’s efforts against Fidel Castro and even the
JFK assassination. “A company was set up in Mexico to purchase weapons
through the U.S. Direct Commercial Sales program, and that company may
have had a direct link to the Zetas,” said Plumlee.

Plumlee’s comment was highly interesting given that the sales program is run by a federal agency.

“The U.S. Direct Commercial Sales
program is run from the State Department’s Directorate of Defense Trade
Controls,” said Owens. “It regulates and licenses private U.S. sales of
weapons overseas.”

How profitable was the State Department’s Direct Commercial Sales program under Hillary Clinton? Ms. Valdez of El Paso Times wrote: “Last year, the program provided Mexico $416.5M worth of weapons . . . including military-grade weaponry.”

lets see what would china do

hang the whole bunch

they incited killings so they should be procecuted to the end

And Mr. Eric Holder gets off with what?

Did not the guns he also sold get used against U.S. Citizens?

There are lots of people that are not following the law or the Constitution!

Anyone have any idea what the specs are on an $800 flashlight? What was so special about them? I can't imagine they were only flashlights. That sounds insane

if the atf can why,why cant they,and im sure it was a under cover op,,,

All of you forget a vast majority of the current service are there because they were given an option from a California Judge. Go to the military or go to prison. Not shocked this would eventually happen. I agree every last one should have their pictures up front so we can all see the DISHONORABLE military.

As for public execution, it will not make a difference those that did not get caught will find a new way to sell the gear.

The Few, The Proud, The Criminals always looking down upon members of other branches of the military as second rate...how laughable. When you train people to be robots and followers rather than to think for themselves you get sheep. In this case very dishonest sheep. The Marine Corps has not changed its arrogant, proud ways in the last 236 years or so and it really shows. Semper Stupid as Semper Does!

I do understand the concern of the DOD on the theft and sale of these $800.00 high tech flashlights as they are the top of the line product and they use batteries. But all joking aside we can see that these thieves were not the brightest light bulbs in the warehouse and could have just driven on down to Mexico and sold the weapons to a drug cartel and made a faster sale.

If they gave them away for free to likable people on the Right side of real Laws, not needing permission to be Right with Rights, I could support as not violating against anybody unjustly.

Who couldn't use a costly flashlight to defend Rights?

The military selling weapons,oh no ,I mean stolen weapons.You can only sell weapons if approved by Congress or the drug enforcement agency.

Those $800 dollar flashlights were stored in the $500 dollar garbage baskets purchased for the military offices. The replacement batteries cost $500 and the bulbs cost $300. No wonder our government budgets are so huge.

If they recovered $1.8 million dollars worth of equipment, it was a scam from the word go. This is simply the NCIS making hay of some sort of sting they ran on base.

They somehow managed to not arrest a single foreign national?? Really. Who was buying it then? Drug cartel?

Where is the meat in this story? Mystery flashlight for 800, no brand name or number? Will it shine light on bad reporting?

I wonder how much of this stuff was in DRMO to start with?

Watch out for those Chinese spys at yard sales.