Fighting Suicide: Marines Try Posthumous Non-Judicial Punishment

CAMP LEJEUNE, NC – "Marines are not allowed to die without permission!" R. Lee Ermey's character famously tells a group of recruits in the 1987 film Full Metal Jacket. Now, twenty-six years later, the Marine Corps is putting those words into practice.

In what is being described as the toughest new anti-suicide policy in the U.S. military, the Marine Corp…