A group of 30 Marines, sailors and soldiers from 16 countries took the oath of citizenship Thursday during a ceremony aboard the USS Midway Museum.
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KPBS Midday EditionWhile President Trump pushes Congress to create a new military branch called the Space Force, the Pentagon is about to choose a permanent home for its existing Space Command. -
The amendments would require developers to allocate a portion of a development's units as affordable for people earning a certain percentage of San Diego County's area median income. -
One of the Navy’s newest ships is being named after civil rights leader and Georgia Rep. John Lewis who was in San Diego for a ceremony Monday. -
The USS Abraham Lincoln aircraft carrier strike group is being deployed to the Persian Gulf to counter an alleged but still-unspecified threat from Iran, the latest in a long line of such deployments to the strategic region. -
Military authorities Friday publicly identified a 24-year-old U.S. Marine killed Thursday in a Camp Pendleton training accident. -
The Pentagon is planning to hire a single private company to oversee the moving process for military families. The current system is plagued by delays, lost shipments, theft, and a lack of accountability. -
San Diego Mayor Kevin Faulconer is making eight city-owned properties available to developers to spur the development of roughly 200 new low-income housing units. -
The San Diego-based Alpha Project celebrated the recent opening of an apartment complex aimed at getting homeless vets into housing. -
Frank Manchel, 95, died Sunday while on an Honor Flight trip returning from the nation’s capital to San Diego. -
The U.S. is rushing an aircraft carrier and other military resources to the Middle East after seeing Iranian troops and proxy forces making preparations for attacks against U.S. forces and interests in the region, a defense official told The Associated Press.
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