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A man is halted climbing the US-Mexico border wall. Under new Trump rules, US troops sound the alarm
Inside an armored vehicle, an Army scout uses a joystick to direct a long-range optical scope toward a man perched atop the U.S.-Mexico border wall cutting across the hills of this Arizona frontier community.
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KPBS Midday EditionSEAL Chief Eddie Gallagher was taken into custody September 11, 2018. He was moved to the naval hospital in San Diego after the president issued a Tweet supporting his removal from the brig. -
A plane developed and designed in San Diego could become a widely used surveillance tool. -
Staff Sgt. Joshua Braica, 29, joined the Marine Corps in 2010. He died Sunday after being injured in a training accident at Camp Pendleton. -
A Trump administration regulation set to go into effect Friday bars transgender people from the military unless they "correct those deficiencies," a description the American Medical Association said Thursday is unfair and defies science. -
Sindy Johnson, who is stationed at the Navy's Fleet Readiness Center Southwest at Naval Air Station North Island, received the award in Washington, D.C. She was one of five finalists for the honor. -
Ed Stankowski joined the U.S. Navy in 1942 and was part of the first crew aboard USS Midway in 1945—he and his family got to tour the now floating museum. -
Three American service members and a U.S. contractor were killed when their convoy hit a roadside bomb on Monday near the main U.S. base in Afghanistan, the U.S. forces said. The Taliban claimed responsibility for the attack. -
President Trump visits the border amid his latest closure threat, complaints about privately-run military housing at Camp Pendleton, and the new suicide-prevention barrier on the Coronado bridge. -
More than seven tons of cocaine seized in international waters of the eastern Pacific Ocean from February to late March was off-loaded in San Diego on Friday by the U.S. Coast Guard Cutter Waesche. -
The military mission to reinforce the border with concertina wire wrapped up Sunday. Homeland Security has not released the plan to show why some portions of the wall are covered in razor wire while other nearby sections have none.
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