Wounded Warrior Homes will provide a single-family home to a veteran woman with children while she's enrolled in one of their programs.
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KPBS Midday EditionRetired Army Col. Sheri Swokowski has been working to change a military ban that stops openly transgender individuals from serving in the armed forces. -
A jury of six Marines decided Lawrence Hutchins III, 31, should get no additional prison time beyond the roughly seven years and two months he already served for murdering an Iraqi civilian. -
A jury of three enlisted men and three officers returned a guilty verdict Wednesday against Marine Sgt. Lawrence Hutchins III for a second time for the killing of the 52-year-old Iraqi policeman in the village of Hamdania.
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KPBS Midday EditionCoronado residents Howard and Jean Somers lost their veteran son to suicide. They've since started an organization to help veterans with PTSD. -
A UC San Diego graduate student in archeology is building a virtual museum of Iraqi artifacts that were recently destroyed by terrorists. -
KPBS Midday EditionThe U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs analyzed a decade of suicide data and found female veterans commit suicide at nearly six times the rate of other women. -
The yearlong experiment to determine whether women can serve in ground combat is wrapping up. "I think for the males they kind of expected us to be ... the moms, the sisters — kind of take care of us. But now they’re like, ‘OK, we’re a Marine, you’re a Marine. Let’s just get the job done,’" said Marine Sgt. Zarina Flemming. -
The families of five Nepalese civilians killed in the crash of a Camp Pendleton-based helicopter on an earthquake relief mission last month demanded compensation Monday, saying it took weeks to get confirmation of their relatives' deaths. -
Authorities said Sgt. Lawrence Hutchins III took part in a plan to kidnap and kill suspected insurgent Saleh Gowad near Hamdania but grabbed disabled 52-year-old war veteran Hashim Awad instead when Gowad's family foiled the plan.
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The family of Marine Sgt. Rafael Peralta accepted their late son's Navy Cross Monday, even though they would have preferred the Medal of Honor.
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