BBC | Submitted by: itchley "Incinerated partial remains of at least 274 troops were reportedly dumped at landfills between 2004-08 by the largest military mortuary in the US... Since the landfill dumping ended three years ago, such cremated partial remains are now buried at sea... It emerged that a dead soldier's ankle had been lost and a damaged arm bone was sawed off a dead Marine before burial so he could fit in his uniform and coffin."