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Marine Corps spouses had a hand in convincing Commandant James Amos to reverse a previous ruling and allow Marines to once again roll up their sleeves. Why all the fuss? As Bonnie Amos, First Lady of the Marine Corps put it, "We miss our husbands' guns!"
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The Department of Defense's new budget proposal would include an increase in Tricare fees for the family members of active-duty troops.
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Marines with 1st Explosive Ordnance Disposal Company, based at Camp Pendleton, are training for their deployment to Afghanistan next month.
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KPBS Midday EditionThe 4,000-page multivolume collection includes a running summary of the situation for every day of the war in the Pacific compiled by Nimitz’s planning staff.
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The fear that the Department of Defense would close stateside commissaries has been replaced by the realization that while commissaries will stay open, the price of groceries could go up.
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You can watch live as the Naval War College Library unveils online the WWII Gray Book diary of Fleet Adm. Chester Nimitz - 4,000 pages worth of communications Nimitz began right after the attack at Pearl Harbor, and wrapped up in the final days of WWII. Home Post will carry the live feed at 6:30 p.m. EST.
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U.S. Marine Ricky Jones, a member of the U.S.M.C. military police, was killed Saturday morning in a multi-car pile up in the Mission Valley area of San Diego.
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Army veteran Steve Holcolm won another bronze medal at the Sochi Olympics, this time for four-man bobsled. He is now the first American bobsled pilot to earn three Olympic medals.
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U.S. Secretary of Defense Chuck Hagel announced Friday that he would not reopen Medal of Honor consideration for a Marine Corps non-commissioned officer from San Diego who was killed in Iraq during the Battle of Fallujah.
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Negotiations went nowhere, and now Alpine teachers are striking. The SDPD finds itself with a third case of sexual misconduct on its hands. Veterans of Iraq and Afghanistan get help to avoid homelessness.
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