Marine Lt. Col. Michael Masters, who had been the executive officer at Parris Island’s Recruit Training Regiment, was “reassigned pending charges,” said Marine Maj. Philip Kulczewski, a spokesman for Parris Island.
Lt. Col. Michael Masters was booked into a Florida county jail on Saturday morning and charged with felony-level "abuse of a child without great bodily harm" and domestic battery by strangulation, according to county police records.
A shakeup at Marine Corps Recruit Depot Parris Island earlier this month led to the firing of the commander and sergeant major of the Recruit Training Regiment. The action was