Support the Enlisted Project, or STEP, started helping local military families in 2012 and is now looking to expand nationally as need for services grows.
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The Navy is investigating the death of Petty Officer 1st Class William "Blake" Marston, a Navy SEAL who died Jan. 11 during a skydiving training exercise. -
In about two weeks, downtown’s Golden Hall will be the site of Project Homeless Connect, a resource fair for San Diego’s homeless population. -
Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel, who visited Marine Corps Air Station Miramar on Tuesday, called the future bomber "a critical element" of U.S. global power. -
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The court-martial of Air Force Staff Sgt. Sean Oliver, who has been charged with killing Navy Mass Communications Specialist 2nd Class Dmitry Chepusov, started Monday at Ramstein Air Base in Germany. -
When Naval Aircrewman 1st Class Joseph Jiardina departed San Diego on Oct. 31 aboard the USS Sampson for a scheduled deployment to the Western Pacific, there was no way he could've known he'd become a critical part of the search for wreckage and bodies after the crash of AirAsia Flight 8501 in the Java Sea. -
The annual count, which is on Jan. 23, enables San Diego County to qualify for federal funds that help pay for programs to help the homeless. -
So, military doctors wondered, how to relieve the pressure within the soldier’s skull without killing him? The answer was something called a craniectomy. The inventor was an Army neurosurgeon named Col. Rocco Armonda. -
Most medical advances in war usually happen by accident, with a military doc facing a traumatically injured patient he’s not sure how to fix. So, tries everything he can think of until something works. This was how a life-saving technique unique to the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq came into practice. -
Military families stationed in Europe and the Pacific are finding it difficult to get the food and supplies they need from their local base commissaries.
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