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Print A brain injury treatment center for military personnel will open its doors April 2 near the Naval Hospital Camp Pendleton. The $11.5 million Intrepid Spirit center is the seventh of nine such facilities at military bases across the country. It is funded by the New York-based nonprofit Intrepid Fallen Heroes Fund founded in 2000 by Zachary Fisher, who also started the Fisher House Foundation for military families. The center will operate as a part of Naval Hospital Camp Pendleton to treat ...

Convoy rode on Interstate 5 near San Onofre State Beach on Tuesday morning  Just before 7am, five military trucks were involved in chain reaction crash  One sailor died and five others suffered injuries, California Highway Patrol said  CHP said dead sailor was a man, 26; another sailor in early 20s was severely hurt  A truck trailer was pushed forward into the cab, causing fatal injuries to sailor  

A Navy service member was killed and five others were injured Tuesday morning after a five military vehicles crashed near Camp Pendleton outside San Diego County.

The accident occurred near Camp Pendleton.

Navy service member killed after military trucks crash near California base David Matthews A Navy service member was killed and five others were injured Tuesday morning after a five military vehicles crashed near Camp Pendleton outside San Diego County. The convoy was traveling south on Interstate 5 shortly before 7 a.m. when the “chain action collision” occurred after the lead vehicle slowed down for an unknown reason. © Lenny Ignelzi The main gate of Camp Pendleton Mari...

Curtis knows where the submarine cables from the windfarm will come onto land — at Camp Pendleton, the state’s military reservation. He knows the nearest place to connect to the 500 kilovolt lines that form the trunk of Dominion’s grid, the Fentress substation in Chesapeake. And through the spring, he and his colleagues will be working on how to get electricity — enough to power 660,000 homes — from the one point to the other. Dominion executives have been meeting with city officials ...

USNI News Fleet and Marine Tracker: March 1, 2021 March 1, 2021 12:00 PM These are the approximate positions of the U.S. Navy’s deployed carrier strike groups and amphibious ready groups throughout the world as of March 1, 2021, based on Navy and public data. In cases where a CSG or ARG is conducting disaggregated operations, the chart reflects the location of the capital ship. Total U.S. Navy Battle Force: 297 In Japan Amphibious transport dock ship USS New Orleans (LPD 18), amphibious landi...

By STEVE LIEWER | STARS AND STRIPES Published: January 27, 2002 A wintry chill settled over the deck of the Navy’s smallest warship, a cold complement to the snow-capped peaks poking up from the North Korean peninsula 15 miles to the west. Jan. 23, 1968, dawned sunny and clear. It was one of the few pleasant sailing days for the 83 men of the USS Pueblo since the ship left its home port of Yokosuka, Japan, 18 days earlier. The top-heavy ship had been bobbing like a cork atop giant swells th...

By ERIKA I. RITCHIE | The Orange County Register | Published: February 27, 2021 SANTA ANA, Calif. (Tribune News Service) — Eleven F/A-18 Hornets launched from the deck of the USS Nimitz on Thursday heralding the end of an era for the famed fighter jets in the Marine Corps. The flight to the Marine Corps Air Station Miramars tarmac marked the last time the Marines would deploy with Hornets on an aircraft carrier. By 2028, most pilots will fly the more stealth F-35 B fighter jets. It also ma...

SAN DIEGO —  A San Diego-based Marine F/A-18C squadron flew off the aircraft carrier Nimitz and back to eager family and loved ones at Marine Corps Air Station Miramar on Thursday, after a 9-month deployment to the Middle East and Africa. The squadron — the “Death Rattlers” of VMFA-323 — left San Diego May 6. While on deployment, the Nimitz supported operations in Iraq and Afghanistan and also provided air support as the U.S. repositioned its forces in Somalia. Due partly to compli...