A U.S. soldier in Iraqis accused of fatally shooting two other American service members and injuring a third after an argument in Iraq’s Anbar province last week, the military said.

WRAL.com reports:

A military judge on Monday set a Dec. 8 trial date for an 82nd Airborne Division soldier charged in a sexual assault on Fort Bragg. Army Spc. Aaron Michael Pernell, 23, is charged with two counts each of rape and burglary and one count each of attempted rape, assault consummated by battery and housebreaking.

NOLA.com reports:

An Army officer will stand trial in the murder of his wife, who was shot in their residence at the Naval Air Station-Joint Reserve Base in Belle Chasse in May. Maj. Detric Kelly, 37, has been formally charged with premeditated murder and possessing an unregistered firearm in the May 15 death of Kimberly Kelly, said Jim Beinkemper, a spokesman forFort Polk where Kelly will stand trial. . . . Army prosecutors have not decided whether to seek the death penalty[.]

See also NOLA.com here, and also here.

Thirteen junior officers were kicked out of the Marine Corps last week after officials uncovered widespread cheating on a land navigation exam. All 13 were students at The Basic School aboard Marine Corps Base Quantico, Va., a six-month boot camp for newly commissioned officers. Eight men — including two former football players from the Naval Academy — and five women were administratively discharged May 20 for allegedly using cheat sheets last fall to help them locate boxes stashed in the woods aboard the base, Marine officials said. Two of the 13 officers were prior enlisted Marines.

Stars & Stripes reports a piece of good news:

While anti-base protesters often complain about crimes that U.S. servicemembers commit here, recently released police statistics for 2009 show arrests of SOFA personnel dropped nearly 21 percent from the previous year.

nola.com reports that:

An Army officer has been charged with premeditated murder in the death ofhis wife of 10 years, who was shot May 15 in their residence at the Naval Air Station-Joint Reserve Base in Belle Chasse. Kelly’s case now goes to an Article 32 hearing[.]

oHud.com reports that:

Cadet Kyle Newman will be tried by general court-martial today on two charges of rape stemming from incidents last October at West Point and in January 2009 in neighboring Highland Falls.