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Students from the University of Missouri have traveled to San Diego to cook Thanksgiving dinner for the crew of the USS Boxer. Six students will be on board the Boxer to prepare the holiday meal as part of MU's school of hospitality's "Adopt a Ship" program. -
San Diego vendors showed some Thanksgiving spirit by giving away free turkeys, potatoes, and other Thanksgiving fixings to local Sailors ahead of the big holiday. -
Home Post usually doesn't have a "Photo of the Day," but one look at this little guy reuniting with his Navy aviator father, and I had to make an exception. -
Three Southern California men charged this week with plotting to kill Americans and bomb U.S. military bases overseas spent months preparing for a trip to Afghanistan where, authorities say, they hoped to join the Taliban and eventually graduate to the ranks of al-Qaida. -
A spokesman for Gen. John Allen says the top U.S. and NATO commander of the war in Afghanistan has returned to Kabul to resume his duties, more than a week after the Pentagon announced it is investigating potentially "inappropriate" correspondence between the four-star general and a woman linked to the David Petraeus sex scandal. -
Marine Lance Cpl. Enrique Gallardo traveled from Japan to San Diego to provide bone marrow to a woman he never met who was battling leukemia. -
PCU (Pre-Commissioning Unit) Anchorage is slated to arrive in her new home port of Naval Base San Diego on Wednesday. The PCU Anchorage is the Navy's newest amphibious ship. -
The Military Times Edge has named California State University San Marcos the top public university in California for veterans. -
Marine Lance Cpl. Dale W. Means, 23, was killed in Afghanistan on November 18. Means died while conducting combat operations in Helmand Province. -
Three U.S. Navy ships are headed to the waters off Israel, along with the 2,300 Marines on board. The USS Iwo Jima, the USS New York, and the USS Gunston Hall were slated to return home to Norfolk, Virginia next week before being redirected by the Navy.
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