Marine

Group Threatens to Sue Over Corps’ Spiritual Fitness Initiative

A plan by the Marine Corps to include spiritual fitness as a component of professional military education is unconstitutional and must be stopped, the leader of a group dedicated to keeping religion out of the military says. Mikey Weinstein, founder of the Military Religious Freedom Foundation, told Military.com he plans to assemble a class-action lawsuit if the Corps proceeds with its …


Court Sides With Marine Mammal Advocates in Naval Sonar Lawsuit

The federal agency tasked with granting the U.S. Navy permission to use low-frequency active sonar for training, testing and routine operations in oceans around the world didn’t do enough to protect marine mammals, a panel of judges in the Ninth U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals decided recently. Advocates, including the Natural Resources Defense Council and the Humane Society of …