Four years ago, Jason Brezler sent an urgent message to a fellow Marine in Afghanistan, warning him about a threat. The warning wasn't heeded, and two weeks later, three U.S. troops were dead.Now the Marine Corps is trying to kick out Maj. Brezler because the warning used classified information.Solving a problemJason Brezler never thought he'd make a career out of the Marine Corps — his family history was FDNY."My grandfather was a firefighter, my father was a firefighter and fire chief," he says.Brezler graduated from the Naval Academy just before Sept. 11, 2001, and deployed twice as a Marine officer. Then he went into the reserves in 2005, and took a job as a rookie firefighter in the Bronx. The Iraq war was burning too, though, and the Marines kept calling for volunteers."I had an opportunity to go to Fallujah at the height of the insurgency, came home and said, what the heck, decided to go to Afghanistan," he says.In 2010 he was at a remote base in Helmand. The mission was to
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