A San Diego man pleaded guilty Monday in Los Angeles to twice landing a small airplane without permission on a Navy airstrip on San Clemente Island, then stealing a Navy truck and using it to damage gates on the island, causing thousands of dollars in damage.
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Marine Corps Air Station Miramar and Marine Corps Community Services Miramar canceled the 2021 Miramar Air Show Thursday due to the continuing public health risks associated with COVID-19.
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Female recruits went through Marine boot camp in San Diego for the first time this spring. As they are set to graduate, these new Marines say it's time for women to keep training on the West Coast.
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The Marine Corps inspector general, Major General Robert Castellvi, has been suspended amid the ongoing probes into last summer’s fatal sinking of a seafaring tank off the Southern California coast.
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San Diego Navy installations will begin to transition to less restrictive COVID-19 measures this week, it was announced Tuesday.
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Hurricanes caused catastrophic damage to East Coast military bases in 2018. Now, as it starts to rebuild, the Pentagon wants to make bases less vulnerable to future storms.
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With such a large military population in San Diego, knowing the number of active-duty service members, their dependents and retirees who got vaccinated are critical to reaching herd immunity.
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KPBS Midday EditionA harassment incident after a Marine Corps Birthday Ball pushed one pilot's career into limbo, a decade after the Don't Ask, Don't Tell policy ended.
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An unmanned MQ-8B Fire Scout helicopter crashed into the side of the littoral combat ship USS Charleston during a training exercise in the Eastern Pacific Ocean.
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The latest report from the Regional Task Force on the Homeless shows the number of people entering homelessness for the first time nearly doubled from 2,326 in 2019 to 4,152 in 2020.
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Congress gave the Marines until 2028 to integrate the West Coast boot camp. In the short term, the future is uncertain for female recruits in San Diego.
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