One thing about the media: they can be both right and wrong. Now, the original stories had the entire III MEF moving from Okinawa to Guam. I did some more digging tonite and found that one brigade will stay on Okinawa, but most are going to Guam. One issue with the media and the military is that so few reporters have done military service; back in the '60s and '70s, you could find reporters who had been in the military, and knew how things worked. Not today, unless you count the reporters who were embedded in OIF-1, and the vast majority of them, it seems, came away with an increased respect for the military (though I doubt their editors did). These days, if the media reports a military issue as the lead, it's usually bad news (the old adage "If it bleeds, it leads.").
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Treat everyone you meet with kindness and respect, but always have a plan to kill them.
Old USMC Adage
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