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The USNS Harvey Milk was built in San Diego and local elected leaders and LGBTQ+ veterans say they're ready for a fight.
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San Francisco 49ers' Colin Kaepernick sparked controversy with what he explained as a statement against racial oppression. The 49ers will take on the Chargers at Qualcomm Stadium Thursday, when the San Diego team will conduct its annual military salute. -
The SEALS are running out of space on Coronado. This week, the Navy began a new phase of work on an expansion along the Strand near Imperial Beach. A group of Native Americans is protesting the impact on an ancient burial site. -
San Francisco 49ers quarterback Colin Kaepernick's protest of the national anthem is apparently winning support from some military veterans on Twitter. The player said he will continue his protest ahead of Thursday's preseason game in San Diego.
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Navy officials in San Diego Monday were assessing the damage in the third major engine breakdown over the past year in a littoral combat ship, prompting an admiral to call for improvements in engineering oversight and training. -
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.
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