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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KPBS Midday EditionThe wife of one U.S. Marine officer who has served since 2000 has documented her family's experience during his multiple deployments to Iraq and Afghanistan. -
East Village has 1,100 homeless people sleeping outside on the street, but fewer than a dozen public toilets. -
Navy officials said bomb threat messages have been found over the past nine months scrawled on a bulkhead inside a docked ship, inside portable toilets, a ship's stairway and plumbing pipe, among other places. A few threats were called in. -
Rear Adm. John Neagley told an audience of contractors at the Navy's Gold Coast conference that there are many opportunities to design new uses for the littoral combat ship. -
Marines at Marine Corps Air Station Miramar and Camp Pendleton participated in one of the largest cyber exercises in the history of the Marine Corps, which is trying to pivot from fighting counter insurgency in Iraq and Afghanistan to looking at new threats. -
About 30 percent of homeless individuals housed in North County’s winter shelter network last year were women, and almost half of them were victims of domestic violence. -
KPBS Midday EditionThe city of San Diego aims to house 1,000 homeless veterans by March 2017, while the county is working to house 1,250 homeless individuals with severe mental illness in the next three years. -
KPBS Midday EditionIn the last decade, Utah has reduced its population of chronically homeless individuals by more than 90 percent. How did the state do it? -
KPBS Midday EditionWhile one emergency shelter for families opens in Vista, another one is closing. That's because of the Housing First policy, which requires providers to offer shelter immediately, without setting conditions. -
Three San Diego-based warships that accompanied the aircraft carrier USS John C. Stennis on a seven-month deployment returned home Thursday.
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