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A man is halted climbing the US-Mexico border wall. Under new Trump rules, US troops sound the alarm
Inside an armored vehicle, an Army scout uses a joystick to direct a long-range optical scope toward a man perched atop the U.S.-Mexico border wall cutting across the hills of this Arizona frontier community.
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KPBS Midday EditionThe military exercise Dawn Blitz is part of a larger attempt by the Marine Corps to preserve the military amphibious warfare techniques used in World War II at Normandy and in the Pacific. -
A brick walkway and flag garden named for a Marine who died in Iraq will be dedicated Tuesday at Southwestern College in Chula Vista. -
In a park in the middle of a leafy, bohemian neighborhood where homes list for close to $1 million, a tractor's massive claw scooped up the refuse of the homeless - mattresses, tents, wooden frames, a wicker chair, an outdoor propane heater. Workers in masks and steel-shanked boots plucked used needles and mounds of waste from the underbrush. -
The littoral combat ship USS Coronado was headed home to San Diego Monday following a 14-month maiden deployment to Southeast Asia. -
KPBS Midday EditionAlyce Smith-Cooper, the first poet laureate at the Veterans Museum at Balboa Park, talks about how she is paying tribute to the "unsung and unacknowledged" heroes of the U.S. military. -
Two members of the San Diego City Council proposed Monday that the former Chargers training facility in Murphy Canyon be used for a temporary shelter for the homeless. -
KPBS Midday EditionRemoving pythons helps the ecology of the Everglades — and helps veterans transition from the battlefield to civilian life. -
Harvard international affairs professor Stephen Walt is in favor of using America’s military forces as sparingly as possible and saw some promise in President Trump’s campaign promises. But since the election, Walt sees Trump as basically following the status quo. -
An outbreak of diarrheal illnesses, including cases of E. coli infection, has sickened about 300 Marines-in-training at Marine Corps Depot San Diego along with some personnel at Camp Pendleton over the last week, base officials announced Tuesday. -
A federal court in Washington is barring President Donald Trump from changing the government's policy on military service by transgender people.
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