Top commando pledges support for Marine A Britain's top commando has urged all Royal Marines to rally round and support the soldier convicted of killing a wounded Taliban prisoner as he serves out his prison sentence. Major-General Ed Davis referred to Marine A, who was convicted of murdering the wounded insurgent earlier this month, as a "member of the corps family" declaring "once a marine, always a marine," The Sunday Times revealed. On the day the unnamed soldier was found guilty by a military court, Davis issued a statement to all Royal Marines which said: "We will hold true to our duty of care and responsibility for this member of the corps family, and his family, as he serves out his sentence; because our mantra of "once a marine, always a marine" is not conditional." Officers within the Royal Marines are now putting pressure on Davis, who led the Royal Marines Commando Brigade in Afghanistan when the Taliban prisoner was murdered in Helmand in 2011, to submit statements of mitigation ahead of Marine A's sentencing next month.