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.
Packaged military explosives were found unattended in an office building at Camp Pendleton, California, on Wednesday, triggering a temporary evacuation of the area. No one was hurt, the Marine Corps told Military.com on Friday.
A Marine noncommissioned officer known as "Sergeant Major Kettlebell" was relieved from his position as the top senior enlisted adviser for one of the service s two infantry schools.
Sgt. Maj. Steven Burkett was fired for "loss of trust and confidence" last month by Col. Seth MacCutcheon, the Marine Corps School of Infantry-West commanding officer, according to a service spokesperson.