A group of 30 marines, sailors and soldiers from 16 different countries took the oath of citizenship in a ceremony on board the USS Midway Museum on Thursday.
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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. -
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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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. -
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. -
Marines are training in seafaring tanks for the first time since nine men died when one of the troop carriers sank off the Southern California coast during an exercise last summer. -
The investigation is still underway to find the cause of the blaze which destroyed the Wasp-class Navy Vessel which had been undergoing maintenance in San Diego. -
Biden has been hinting for weeks that he was going to let the deadline lapse, and as the days went by it became clear that an orderly withdrawal of the remaining 2,500 troops would be difficult. -
Congress has told the Department of Veterans Affairs to offer COVID-19 vaccines to some 24 million people who don't usually get their health care through the VA. -
Guests will have to undergo temperature screenings to enter the installation, face coverings will be mandatory, and "strict" social distancing will be expected.
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