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KPBS Midday EditionA diplomat who served as a U.S. State Department political adviser says with the way the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan have changed the country, America needs a "mirror test." -
KPBS Midday EditionCamp Pendleton hosted a reunion over the weekend for the 3rd Battalion, 5th Marine Regiment, which suffered more casualties during the war in Afghanistan than any other Marine unit. -
More than three dozen San Diego military veterans graduated Friday from Workshops for Warriors, a nonprofit that for free trains and certifies veterans in jobs such as welding, machining and fabrication. -
Volunteers led by the Gary Sinise Foundation built the home for former Marine Sgt. Nick Kimmel, who lost his legs and left arm in a roadside bomb explosion in Afghanistan. -
The nonprofit group Pizza 4 Patriots is sending 5,000 pies to troops stationed in Afghanistan, so they can enjoy a slice or two (or five) while watching the Super Bowl. And despite Pizza 4 Patriots' name, service members who are Seahawks fans will get their fair share of the pies, too. -
Several media outlets, citing unnamed U.S. defense officials, are reporting that the U.S. Army will charge Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl with desertion this week. However, the Army is denying these reports to be true, saying no decision on Bergdahl's fate has yet been made. -
The U.S. Navy will hold a special decommissioning ceremony for the USS Peleliu the morning of March 31, at Naval Base San Diego's Pier #7. The Peleliu is the last ship of its kind, and has been in service for almost 35 years. -
So, military doctors wondered, how to relieve the pressure within the soldier’s skull without killing him? The answer was something called a craniectomy. The inventor was an Army neurosurgeon named Col. Rocco Armonda. -
Most medical advances in war usually happen by accident, with a military doc facing a traumatically injured patient he’s not sure how to fix. So, tries everything he can think of until something works. This was how a life-saving technique unique to the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq came into practice. -
We’ve come a long way since the United States’ first foray into battle. If you were unlucky enough to be soldier in the Revolutionary War and found yourself injured by the enemy, you had at least a 40 percent chance of dying.
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