A group of 30 Marines, sailors and soldiers from 16 countries took the oath of citizenship Thursday during a ceremony aboard the USS Midway Museum.
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U.S. Army Ranger Alejandro Villanueva has signed an NFL rookie free-agent contract to play with the Philadelphia Eagles. The 25-year-old Villanueva played football during his years at the U.S. Military Academy at West Point, before spending four years in the Army, and earning a Bronze Star during one of his three deployments to Afghanistan. -
Army Sgt. Dwight W. Burn, 27, was killed Saturday when his CH-47 Chinook helicopter crashed during a training exercise near Orogrande, New Mexico. Burn grew up in the Southern California town of Barstow. He leaves behind two young daughters. -
U.S. Air Force rescuers on Monday were stabilizing two badly burned Chinese fishermen aboard a fishing vessel hundreds of miles off Mexico's Pacific coast before evacuating them by helicopter. -
Army Pfc. Daniela Rojas, 19, died May 3 in Homburg, Germany of a non-combat related illness, according to the Department of Defense. Rojas grew up in Boyle Heights and was a 2012 graduate of Theodore Roosevelt High School in East Los Angeles. -
About 300 Marines departed Sangin District in Helmand province for the final time Sunday, bringing combat operations to a close in what was one of the bloodiest regions of the war in Afghanistan. Camp Pendleton's Darkhorse Battalion lost 25 Marines during its deployment in Sangin between September 2010 and April 2011. -
Retired Marine Corps Col. Nick Marano has made a unique transition from the military to the civilian world. The former commanding officer of Camp Pendleton will soon become the city manager of Carson City - Nevada's state capital. -
A California congressman says the veteran was lost last month when he missed the last U.S. exit. -
A proposition on June’s ballot could get homeless veterans off California streets. -
Two U.S. Navy pilots flying a T-34C Turbo Mentor were able to safely bail out of the plane before it crashed into the Gulf of Mexico near Corpus Christi, Texas on Thursday morning. -
Reports of sexual assault in the U.S. military spiked 50 percent, according to a Pentagon survey released Thursday.
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