It may only be a matter of time before charges are filed against the Marines and senior commanding officers involved in the killings in Haditha.

One of the three Camp Pendleton officers recently relieved of duty spoke out, calling himself a “political casualty.”

“The association with my name to the alleged Haditha war crimes is unacceptable to me,” Capt. James Kimber told 10News.

Members of Kimber’s battalion are accused of killing 24 unarmed Iraqi civilians -- but not members of his former company. Kimber wants to make that clear.

But as former commander of India Company, Kimber wanted to make it clear he had nothing to do with the alleged massacre.

“It’s not relenting so I decided to have a public voice and say to everybody in America, my friends and family and everybody who knows me that myself and my Marines had nothing to do with what happened in Haditha,” said Kimber.

It is actually a handful Marines from Kilo Company that are under investigation.

Included in that group is Sgt. Frank Wuterick, who may have filed a false report about how the Iraqis were killed.

Kimber’s name was made public because he was one of three Camp Pendleton officers relieved of duty last month.

Also relieved of duty were Lt. Col. Jeffrey Chessani, the commander of the 3rd Battalion, 1st Marine Regiment, and Capt. Lucas McConnell, commander of Kilo Company.

Military officials reportedly gave the reason as “a lack of confidence in their leadership abilities.”

“Something broke down here in the sense that no investigation was conducted immediately. Therefore, people most likely in the chain of command who had knowledge should have taken action appropriately. But they did not,” said retired Army Vice Chief of Staff Gen. Jack Keane.

Meanwhile, as a result of the current investigations, a new training program is being implemented for the 130,000 U.S. troops in Iraq.

The manual that is used is called “Core Values Training.”

It outlines the differences between American and Iraqi cultures.

It also reminds Marines that the law of war is that soldiers fight only enemy combatants.

"I'd hate to think Marines are involved in something like that. I'd certainly not imagine such a group of professionals could do something like that. I wasn't there. I don't really know," said Keane.