Marine Maj. Michael Weber (L) escorts Mark Bitterlich, a retired Marine Gunnery Sergeant from Marine Air Station Cherry Point to the courtroom at Camp Lejeune,NC February 26. Bitterlich is a witness for the defense in the court-martial of Capt. Richard Ashby, the pilot of the jet that cut the cable on a ski gondola which resulted in the deaths of 20 people in Italy last year.

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