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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Marines from Camp Pendleton's 5th Marine Regiment will head up the Marine Corps' newest Special Purpose Marine Air-Ground Task Force Crisis Response Central Command in the Middle East. -
About 17 percent of San Diego's estimated 8,500 homeless people in January were veterans — 2 percent higher than the same time last year. -
The Navy relieved Capt. Wayne R. Brown of his duties as commanding officer of the USS Boxer on Sept. 29. According to a Navy news release, Brown's firing resulted from "a command investigation into Equal Opportunity concerns, and is not tied to a specific event." -
The Marine Corps will base its newest crisis response unit in Kuwait. Roughly 2,100 troops will be part of the Special-Purpose Marine Air-Ground Task Force (SPMAGTF) Central Command, set to deploy in 2015. -
Armed with hand sanitizers on their belts, members of the U.S. Navy and U.S. Air Force have started to arrive in West Africa - the epicenter of the worst Ebola outbreak in human history. -
The guided-missile frigate USS McClusky return to San Diego from its final deployment and will now be prepared for decommissioning. -
KPBS Midday EditionKPBS Midday Edition breaks down a new report on the local economic impact of military activities. The San Diego Military Advisory Council says the total represents 20 percent of the county's total gross regional product. -
The 1,000-square-foot energy-efficient veterans center replaces a smaller facility and will offer military-affiliated students a kitchen, lounge, event space and a conference room. -
The Air Force announced this week airmen aren't required to say "So help me God" as part of the enlistment oath. The decision was prompted by an atheist airman from Creech Air Force Base in Nevada who refused to say those four words in his reenlistment oath, and thus was denied the opportunity to remain in the Air Force. -
Army Maj. Michael J. Donahue, 41, a paratrooper stationed at Fort Bragg in North Carolina, was one of two Americans killed Tuesday when their convoy was attacked by a suicide car bomber near Kabul, Afghanistan.
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