High-powered explosives missing from US largest Marine Corps base
The officials of the US’s largest Marine Corps base say an unspecified amount of high-powered explosives have been disappeared.
The commanders of Marine Corps Air Ground Combat Center Twentynine Palms in San Bernardino County, California, announced the news last week, declining to elaborate on the amount of explosives or when they are believed to have disappeared.
According to Jeff Houston with The Naval Criminal Investigative Service (NCIS), an investigation is already underway in the base where thousands of marines are participating in a combat drill since Jan. 15.
"Out of respect for the investigative process, NCIS does not comment on or confirm details relating to ongoing investigations," Houston said.
The incident comes after the Pentagon acknowledged that extremist groups are "very aggressively" recruiting US military service members, amid reports that a significant percentage of former President Donald Trump’s extremist supporters who launched a violent march on the Capitol were active duty service members and others were military veterans.
Top US military officials have long struggled with rooting out extremism in the military and preventing troops from joining extremist groups, though the issue came to the forefront after angry protesters raided the Capitol last month following the disputed 2020 presidential election which Trump believed was rigged in favor of Joe Biden, the Democrat who was later declared the winner.
According to an analysis based on court cases, nearly 1 in 5 people charged in the insurrection were either active duty service members or veterans.
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