Take Two translates the day’s headlines for Southern California, making sense of the news and cultural events that affect our lives. Produced by Southern California Public Radio and broadcast from October 2012 – June 2021. Hosted by A Martinez.
The specter of death in the desert is one that many Marines have faced in the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. But a special report by the Desert Sun newspaper finds they're also facing it at home.
Since 2007, the Marine Corps base in Twenty Nine Palms, California has seen more deaths among its ranks from car crashes and suicides, than in combat. Reporter Brett Kelman has spent the past year investigating this trend and he joins me now.