doing this and that s sort of a different function and from the days of muhro should be divided between analysis. jon: and moving ahead. seven marines were killed at hawthorne depot in nevada. and senator harry reid talked about the tragedy saying he will do whatever he can going forward to support the united states military families and the marines. and then he followed with this. it s so important we continue training our military, so important. but one of the things in sequester, we cut back in training and maintenance. jon: and comments went pretty much unnoticed by the mainstream media that day. cal, blaming the deaths of seven marines on sequester? all you have to do, jon, and say if a republican had done this, a rand paul, a marco rubio, the he media would have been all over them. instead a cnn reporter chasing
a different function and from the days of muhro should be divided between analysis. jon: and moving ahead. seven marines were killed at hawthorne depot in nevada. and senator harry reid talked about the tragedy saying he will do whatever he can going forward to support the united states military families and the marines. and then he followed with this. it s so important we continue training our military, so important. but one of the things in sequester, we cut back in training and maintenance. jon: and comments went pretty much unnoticed by the mainstream media that day. cal, blaming the deaths of seven marines on sequester? all you have to do, jon, and say if a republican had done this, a rand paul, a marco rubio, the he media would have been all over them. instead a cnn reporter chasing
this story as well, very haurt breaking. we have new deals about a seven marines killed in mortar explosion earlier this week. it happened at the hawthorne depot in the nevada. the oldest was 27 years old. the youngest was 19. among these victims a 21-year-old who always wanted to go into the military like his dad. will thomas with our washington fox affiliate wttg has his story. a lot of tears. a lot of emotion. reporter: friends and family called him taylor. the 21-year-old lance corporal, among seven marines killed in an explosion. it wasn t enmy fire. an accident during training exercises monday night in nevada. it was at the hawthorne army depot. a mortgage round under expectedly went off. awesome son, awesome brother. awesome friend, awesome marine. what more can you say. reporter: his son s full
we start with breaking news out of nevada where six u.s. marines have been kill and eight wounded in an explosion that occurred in a training exercise overnight at the army s hawthorne depot and storage facility in western nevada. we go now for the latest. jim, was this an accident or did somebody do something wrong? it was clearly an accident according to u.s. military officials who say that the six marines were killed and eight others wounded in a live fire training exercise at the hawthorne army depot early this morning. according to the officials, there several accounts. one that has the marines loaded and a 16-millimeter mortar shell and it exploded then.
mortar shell. why? nobody knows for sure just yet. that s under investigation. as you said, significance marines were killed and the number of injured has been bumped up to eight but none of those injuries appears to be life threatening. these marines were from the second marine division out of camp lejeune here on the east coast. out there at twentynine palms and the hawthorne army depot for their training. now, those eight that are hospitalized, one has already left the hospital. the seven others don t appear to have life threatening injuries. this is under thorough investigation. the marine corps has yet to figure out exactly what caused what appears to be a very tragic accident. richard? jim miklaszewski at the pentagon. thank you. we ll continue reports to follow that for you. the news nation is also following the ten-year anniversary of the shock and awe campaign that ushered in the war on iraq. a war that toppled saddam hussein but at a heavy price.