Officers found liable in Marine Osprey inquiry
Three of the eight U.S.

Three of the eight U.S. Marine Corps officers charged with wrongdoing in the MV-22 Osprey tiltrotor scandal have been found liable to some of the administrative charges. The other five officers and men were cleared of charges that they participated in a scheme to falsify maintenance records. (It should be stressed that being found in violation of a charge is not, under the code of military justice, the equivalent of criminal conviction.)

Col. James Schleining, command- ing officer of Marine Aircraft Group 26, was found guilty of dereliction of duty and received a punitive letter of reprimand, with the Marine Corps officials saying he should have known of the false maintenance reports. Col. Schleining was cleared of a charge of violating a lawful order by allegedly failing to report the suspected falsification of maintenance reports.

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