A group of 30 Marines, sailors and soldiers from 16 countries took the oath of citizenship Thursday during a ceremony aboard the USS Midway Museum.
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The San Diego Padres will mark Memorial Day by hosting Gold Star families who lost a relative during the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. -
A San Diego-based U.S. Navy pilot who was shot down over Vietnam more than 50 years ago was given a full military at Fort Rosecrans National Cemetery. -
Memorial Day can be especially difficult for relatives of service members who died by suicide. They often feel stigmatized, even around other military families. -
The Pentagon did not ramp up ship building in its 2018 budget proposal to Congress, meaning at least a delay in the Trump's plan to expand the Navy beyond what was proposed in the Obama administration. -
More than half a century ago, Deborah Crosby was sent home from the first grade to find military officers in her living room and her mother distraught: Her father's Navy plane had been shot down in northern Vietnam, and he was presumed dead, though his body had not been found.
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The national cemetery is holding an open house over the weekend to give veterans a chance to see the location, which originally opened as a replacement for Fort Rosecrans in 2010. -
KPBS Midday EditionKen Burns started his documentary journey through American wars with his award-winning examination of the Civil War. Now, Burns is ending his film trilogy with one that many living Americans can remember well. -
The City Council voted unanimously Tuesday to form a special committee to address homelessness issues in San Diego. -
The three ships of the Makin Island Amphibious Ready Group returned to Naval Base San Diego Monday from a seven-month deployment to the Pacific, Middle East and Horn of Africa. -
KPBS Midday EditionUS Army Cyber Command wants to know if it can insert experts onto the battlefield to help troops on the front line combat cyber threats.
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