Mayor kicks Marines out of Toledo

[-Cp]

1-24th Marines were scheduled for weekend urban warfare training in downtown Toledo, when Carty gave them the boot

http://www.nbc24.com/news/news_story.aspx?id=94192

Stupid freakin' Mayor...

[manu1959]

so much for federal funding......

[82Marine89]

“The Marines drilled here three times during the Ford administration and once under the Finkbeiner administration. After the last visit, the mayor told then police Chief Jack Smith, that he did not want the marines back. Smith failed to inform the current police administration of the mayor’s feelings,” Schwartz said.

NBC24 spoke to Jack Smith who recalled that after the Marines last visit, he and the mayor had a heated exchange about the training.

“He told me he did not want them, as he put it, 'playing war in Toledo,'" Smith recalled. "I told him, as a former Marine, that if one young Marine’s life is saved because of training he or she received in Toledo, Ohio, then it was worth the inconvenience.”



Scroll down to the right side of the page and look at the 22 Marines that gave their lives. (http://www.freep.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=999961113001&template=theme&theme=BANDBROS112006) 22 Marines from 1st Bn. 24th Marines.

[gabosaurus]

Perhaps they can move it to Berkeley...

[Trigg]

Perhaps they can move it to Berkeley...

Berkeley's mayor would have a coronary at the suggestion, good idea!!