Cmdr. Janelle Marra, a 21-year Navy physician, was the commander of Expeditionary Medical Facility 150 Bravo.
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Ex-Blue Angels leader Capt. Gregory McWherter was found guilty at an Admiral's Mast proceeding on Monday of condoning sexually crude behavior within the elite flight team that created a "destructive, toxic" working environment. -
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Army Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl, a POW of the Taliban for five years, hasn't yet spoken with his parents since his release from captivity on Saturday, according to military officials. The 28-year-old Bergdahl is currently recovering from his ordeal at Landstuhl Regional Medical Center in Germany. -
June 6 will mark the 70th anniversary of D-Day, when 160,000 Allied troops stormed the beaches of Nazi-occupied Normandy in France, in what was the largest naval invasion in world history. Some of those service members went on to gain fame in literature, sports and film. -
Army Pfc. Jacob H. Wykstra, 21, died May 28, in Kandahar Province of injuries he suffered in what the Defense Department calls an "aircraft accident." The Pentagon did not say if it was the same accident as the May 28 U.S. military helicopter crash in Kandahar Province that killed one NATO soldier and injured three Americans. -
The reaction to embattled Veterans Affairs Secretary Eric Shinseki resigning Friday was swift and mixed among San Diego County military veterans and politicians. -
An investigation into the Jan. 13 drowning death of Marine Pfc. Joshua Islam, 18, at Camp Pendleton has prompted Marine Corps officials to relieve Maj. Adam W. Burch of his duties as commanding officer of Reconnaissance Training Company at School of Infantry–West. -
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A NATO soldier was killed and three American soldiers injured when their U.S. military helicopter crashed Wednesday after hitting a communications antenna in Kandahar province, Afghanistan. -
U.S. Marine veteran Sgt. Andrew Tahmooressi fired his attorney prior to his first hearing before a judge in a Tijuana courthouse Wednesday. Tahmooressi has been jailed in Mexico since April 1 on weapons charges, after accidentally crossing the border with guns in his truck.
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