Cmdr. Janelle Marra, a 21-year Navy physician, was the commander of Expeditionary Medical Facility 150 Bravo.
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The Navy's Blue Angels kicked off the first show of their 2014 season on Saturday to an enthusiastic crowd of thousands at the NAF El Centro Air Show. Most of the squad's 2013 season was cancelled due to sequestration budget cuts. -
Starting this summer, the Navy will give sailors and Marines a 25 percent raise in career sea pay. -
A team of Navy SEALs took control of the commercial tanker ship "Morning Glory" on Sunday from the armed Libyans who seized the ship in early March, according to an announcement by Navy Rear Adm. John Kirby. -
U.S. Air Force Staff Sgt. Sean M. Oliver, 34, has been charged with killing Navy Petty Officer 2nd Class Dmitry Chepusov, 31, on Dec. 14, 2013. Sources close to the investigation have told Home Post that Oliver was the boyfriend of Chepusov's estranged wife. -
The Malaysian government's announcement that the disappearance of Malaysia Airlines flight MH370 was a deliberate act has prompted the U.S. military to reorganize assets searching for the missing plane. The San Diego-based USS Kidd is now part of a team looking in the northern Indian Ocean. -
Franklin Antonio, Qualcomm Inc.'s executive vice president and chief scientist, was announced Friday to be behind a $2 million gift that to Father Joe's Villages lunch program. -
The USS Coronado almost collided with a pod of gray whales off the coast of Orange County as the ship was heading to its new homeport of San Diego earlier this week. -
There is no "compelling medical reason" to ban transgender people from serving in the U.S. military, according to a report released Thursday by an independent commission lead by former U.S. Surgeon General Dr. Joycelyn Elders. -
The San Diego-based USS Pinckney will no longer be a part of the international search mission for Malaysia Airlines flight MH370. The Navy has announced the Pinckney will instead head to Singapore for maintenance. But the San Diego-based USS Kidd is still involved in the hunt for MH370. -
A team at San Diego State University’s Immersive Vizualization Center, known as the Viz Lab, is scouring social media and satellites to search for clues on where the jetliner went down.
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