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KPBS Midday EditionTo increase interest in military service among teenagers, the Army is reaching out to some of the people who know them best: high school teachers and guidance counselors.
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Most of the local Marines went home after their original mission to the border ended, though more troops are expected as the Trump Administration shifts focus to laying barriers between the ports of entries.
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KPBS Midday EditionWhen Vice Adm. Joseph Aucoin was elevated to lead the vaunted 7th Fleet in 2015, he expected it to be the pinnacle of his nearly four-decade Navy career. The fleet was the largest and most powerful in the world, and its role as one of America’s great protectors had new urgency. China was expanding into disputed waters. And Kim Jong-un was testing ballistic missiles in North Korea.
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San Diego repeals an ordinance that banned living in vehicles, Congress will hold a hearing on human research done at San Diego's VA Medical Center, and local police unions fight a new transparency law.
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KPBS Midday EditionIn a first of its kind program, the VA in Long Beach, Cal. is partnering with law enforcement to proactively reach military veterans with mental health issues.
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Active duty medical teams evaluated a couple hundred migrants in California and Arizona through most of January, at the request of the Customs and Border Protection.
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KPBS Midday Edition“Free The Pendleton 14” is a new podcast about a group of black Marines who tried to combat racism and the Ku Klux Klan at Camp Pendleton in the 1970s.
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A federal report describes one San Diego VA patient returning from a procedure “oozing with blood” and in need of an emergency transfusion.
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A Navy SEAL is set to go on trial in San Diego for war crimes, beginning in February.
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KPBS Midday Edition"Who Killed Lt. Van Dorn?" is a documentary playing at the GIFFSD that looks into maintenance problems that could be causing a military helicopter to be deadly.
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