The Marine Corps announced last week that an infantry Marine was paralyzed during a live-fire training accident on the Twentynine Palms Combat Center in July. The Marine, who has only been identified as a lance corporal with the Massachusetts-based reserve unit 1st Battalion, 25th Marines, was shot July 28 during an Integrated Training Exercise. A Marine Corps spokesman said the Marine was taken to Desert Hospital in Palm Springs before being transferred to another care facility where he remains in serious but stable condition. The injured Marine’s reserve unit was training in Twentynine Palms as part of a pre-deployment exercise before being sent to the Asia-Pacific region for exercises.
