and based on "worst-case data". Not long after the airing, the chemical plant was dropped from the list of members of the American Chemistry Council. Military service Prine joined the United States Marine Corps before becoming a journalist. In 2005, he joined the Pennsylvania Army National Guard and deployed to Iraq with the 1st Battalion of the 110th Infantry Regiment. During the tour, his unit was assigned to an area in between Ramadi and Fallujah. After returning from his tour in Iraq with the Army National Guard, Prine started a new investigation into "the vulnerability of the nation's 150,000 miles of railroad tracks and, specifically, the thousands of tanks cars rumbling over them every day." During his investigation, Prine found that a list of hundreds of vulnerabilities of the railroad had been compiled by the Federal Railroad Administration, but that none of the information on the list seemed to have been fixed by major railroad companies or the government itself since the list's creation. After the release of his report on the security of the US railroad system, Prine was accused by multiple railroad companies of trying to give terrorists information on how to attack the United States. The owner of the Railroad Development Corporation, Henry Posner III, stated that Prine was "profiting from the promotion of hysteria." Prine's reporting on football is extensive and he was cited in a 2008 report by the United States House Committee on the Judiciary for his information on the extremely high injury rates in the NFL compared to other professional sports. In 2011, Prine took over Military.com's Line of Departure blog. In July 2012, he left Line of Departure, citing a persistent migraine resulting from injuries during his military service in Iraq. "Wounded Warrior" Series In 2011, Carl Prine authored an investigative series in the Pittsburgh Tribune-Review on the inadequacy of care for wounded US soldiers returning from Afghanistan and Iraq. This series of articles, based on nine months of investigation, shed light on care delayed by red tape, shoddy facilities, and bureaucratic maneuvering to evade scrutiny and responsibility for the shortcomings of medical care for wounded troops. See also Brad Bumsted Randy Bish Military.com References Further reading External links Carl Prine's Line of Departure Blog The Expose Blog: Carl Prine Archives Carl Prine on Facebook 1966 births Living people American investigative journalists American newspaper reporters and correspondents Journalists from Pennsylvania Pennsylvania National