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Toledo mayor pulls plug on Marine training
The Associated Press
Posted : Saturday Feb 9, 2008 15:41:58 EST

GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. — The mayor of Toledo, Ohio, pulled the plug on a planned urban warfare training session in his city involving western Michigan-based Marine reservists.

The Grand Rapids Press and WOOD-TV report about 200 Marines returned Friday night to Grand Rapids after riding buses to and from the Toledo area, about 140 miles away.

Brian Schwartz, a spokesman for Toledo Mayor Carty Finkbeiner, says “people were frightened” by past training.

Maj. Dan Whisnant of Alpha Company, 1st Battalion, 24th Marines, says it was “extremely disappointing.” The training was planned for Friday and Saturday at an abandoned 10-story office structure.

The Marines last trained in Toledo in February 2006, before an Iraq deployment that year.


Article at: http://www.marinecorpstimes.com/news/2008/02/ap_marinesbooted_080209/