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Air Force photograph by Staff Sgt. Ryan Callaghan I Marine Force Expeditionary Force members from Marine Corps Base Camp Pendleton, Calif., load downed aircrew members into an MV-22 Osprey as part of a simulated Tactical Recovery of Aircraft and Personnel scenario, Feb 22, 2017, at the Playas Training and Research Center, N.M. During the scenario, the IMEF rescued isolated personnel from a downed aircraft while fending off mock opposition forces from Davis-Monthan Air Force Base, Ariz.’s 563...

Jerry Summers: John Harlan Willis - Baby-Faced Hero Saturday, December 12, 2020 - by Jerry Summers Jerry Summers From looking at a photo of the baby-faced United States hospital corpsmen from Columbia, Tennessee the viewer would probably not recognize the young Medal of Honor winner in World War II for his heroics on Iwo Jima on February 29, 1945. John Harlan Willis was born on June 10, 1921 in Columbia, Tennessee and graduated from Columbia Central High School He enlisted in the Unites ...

State awards $106 million for San Diego County rail projects Workers repair the site of a bluff collapse next to the railroad tracks in Del Mar after heavy rains in November 2019. (The Union-Tribune) Print The California Transportation Commission has allocated $106 million for San Diego County rail projects, including $36 million for future phases of the ongoing efforts to stabilize the Del Mar bluffs. Work is underway on the fourth phase of a six-part effort begun in 2003 to shore up t...

CAMP PENDLETON, Calif. -- With COVID-19 looming over the holiday season, many families have been forced to alter plans and, in some cases, stop their yearly traditions. One of the most popular traditions taking an operational pause this year is children getting the chance to visit with Santa and tell him all their hopes and dreams when it comes to what will be under the Christmas tree. It’s hard to maintain social distance while sitting on Santa’s knee. Enter the Marines of Marine Light At...

How Conservation Canines help save orcas and other endangered wildlife CNN 12/11/2020 By Starre Vartan, CNN © Fred Felleman/Conservation Canines/Center for Conservation Biology Eba the Whale Dog tracks the scat of wildlife through the Conservation Canines program. Shes shown with scientists (from left) Samuel Wasser, Deborah Giles and Sadie Youngstrom. Barrel-chested, with the pointy ears of a much larger pooch swiveling above her mellow gaze, Eba is more than just the Very...

Military health care workers in North Carolina, Texas and California will be among the first in the Defense Department who can choose to receive the new coronavirus vaccines once they are approved, defense officials said Wednesday.

Dec 10, 2020 CORTLAND — Christopher J. Ahladis, 53, fell asleep in the Lord on Tuesday, Dec. 8, 2020, at home surrounded by his wife and sister, after battling colon cancer. He was born May 18, 1967, in Warren, the son of the late James and Elizabeth “Betty” Gates Ahladis and was a lifelong area resident. Christopher graduated from Lakeview High School in Cortland in 1985. He served in the Navy from 1985 to 1989 as a hospital corpsman at Naval Hospital San Diego, Marine Corps Base, Camp P...

Military training disaster off san diego. the search and rescue under way. at least one marine dead. eight missing. their vehicle taking on water. the marines were based at camp pendleton. will carr has been following this all day. >> reporter: tonight, the military training disaster aboard an amphibious assault vehicle. one marine is dead, two are in critical condition. eight more still missing. officials in a desperate search and rescue operation. the marines, based at camp pendleton, were tra...

Everybodys sister, everybodys girlfriend, everybodys friend. shes just walking to her car, and he stabbed her so many times. it was so awful. >> listen to this confession tape from chicago, describing robins murder. it would be his first, when he was a marine, stationed at camp pendleton. >> >> i had a big old hunting knife. >> he gets in an argument with some fellow marines in camp pendleton and decides tonights the night. he climbs up the hill, uses his marine corps training to essentially sne...

>> do you? >> i believe so. i did seven years in the marine corps as a radio operator. i was a desert storm veteran. >> he enlisted in the marines when he was 19, based first at camp pendleton and then 29 palms, deployed to okinawa and desert storm. two years into a frustrating career, urdiales started killing. >> i was trained to kill. boot camp. >> forensic psychiatrist park deets evaluated him. >> in describing some of the homicides he even described himself as being at war, or its like comba...