Cmdr. Janelle Marra, a 21-year Navy physician, was the commander of Expeditionary Medical Facility 150 Bravo.
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Camp Pendleton Marine veteran Amir Hekmati was sentenced to 10 years in an Iranian prison for “practical collaboration with the American government.” Hekmati has been held in Iran since August 2011, when he went to visit an ailing grandmother. -
Military LGBT activists are "astounded" that San Francisco Pride organizers chose Chelsea Manning - a.k.a. Army Pvt. Bradley Manning - as honorary parade grand marshal. Manning was found guilty of espionage in 2013 for handing over top secret government documents to Wikileaks. Today the Army upheld that conviction, and the 35 year sentence that went along with it. -
On Saturday morning in Bath, Maine, the daughters of the late Admiral Elmo R. "Bud" Zumwalt Jr. will break a bottle of sparkling wine across the bow of the ship that bears their father's name. The USS Zumwalt is being hailed as the the largest Navy destroyer ever built. Its new home will be San Diego. -
The U.S. Department of Defense has spent more than $7 million on the search for Malaysia Airlines flight MH370 since the plane went missing on March 8. The biggest chunk of funds has gone towards the P-8 Poseidon aircraft, which has a $4,000-per-flight-hour operating cost. -
The fatal shooting of Marine Lance Cpl. Mark N. Boterf by a fellow Marine guard at Camp Lejeune on Monday "appears right now to have been an accident," according to the Department of Defense. -
KPBS Midday EditionThe VA in San Diego is rethinking its drug prescription policies because too many veterans are becoming addicted to painkillers. -
A family whose sailboat broke down 900 miles from shore with a sick toddler aboard is back on dry land. -
In the second fatal shooting at a military base in less than a week, a Camp Lejeune Marine guard killed a fellow Marine with a single gunshot wound to the chest. Camp Lejeune officials are calling the killing an "isolated incident." -
The military is investigating the death of Army Capt. James E. Chaffin III, 27, who lost his life April 1 in Kandahar, Afghanistan. The Department of Defense says Chaffin died in a "non-combat related incident." -
Max Sanchez is an Army veteran who saw combat in the Vietnam War. As a result, he suffered from PTSD for decades, with traditional therapies doing little to quell his symptoms. But now Sanchez is enjoying life again, thanks to an unconventional, out-of-the-boxers stress reliever.
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