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The postman had just delivered a Korean-language newspaper to 4416 Cather Ave. when he saw a plane plunging toward him.
“Everything was in slow motion,” said Bill Dusting, a veteran letter-carrier. “My first thought was, ‘Well, this is going to be quick and painless.’”
It was neither. On that morning, 10 years ago today, Dusting ran to safety but the Marine Corps F/A-18D Hornet crashed, killing four people inside 4416 Cather Ave. Flaming wreckage shredded that house and ripped through its neighbor, burning both homes to the ground.
The accident destroyed a South Korean immigrant’s family the dead were Don Yoon’s wife, their two daughters, and his mother-in-law and left a scar on this corner of San Diego’s University City.
SAN DIEGO, Calif. (Tribune News Service) Sgt. Stephanie Fahl is shouldering great expectations. Eight years ago, the 33-year-old San Diego resident went through boot camp at Marine Corps Recruit Depot Parris Island in South Carolina. Her drill instructors inspired her then and she hopes now to carry that same motivation forward as she helps to forge the Corps newest Marines. On Wednesday, Dec. 16, Fahl and two other women, Sgt. Ikea Kaufman and Sgt. Stephanie Jordi, made Marine Corps history by becoming the first females to graduate from a gender-integrated drill instructor course at the 100-year-old Marine Corps Recruit Depot San Diego.
Long-range stealth strike fighter jets made history at the Marine Corps Air-Ground Combat Center last week. Managing editor Tami Roleff tells us how…
A section of F-35C combat jets from VMFA 314, a squadron based at the Marine Corps Air Station Miramar, conducted expeditionary operations December 3 at the Combat Center in Twentynine Palms.
The demonstration spanned over 1000 miles and the aircraft was refueled and loaded with ordnance within a half hour. It was also the first time that an F-35C executed an arrested landing on a shortened airfield utilizing the M-31 arresting gear, demonstrating the F-35C’s unique capabilities and displaying the Marine Corps extended flexibility in combat operations.
Long-range stealth strike fighter jets made history at the Marine Corps Air-Ground Combat Center last week. Managing editor Tami Roleff tells us how…
A section of F-35C combat jets from VMFA 314, a squadron based at the Marine Corps Air Station Miramar, conducted expeditionary operations December 3 at the Combat Center in Twentynine Palms.
The demonstration spanned over 1000 miles and the aircraft was refueled and loaded with ordnance within a half hour. It was also the first time that an F-35C executed an arrested landing on a shortened airfield utilizing the M-31 arresting gear, demonstrating the F-35C’s unique capabilities and displaying the Marine Corps extended flexibility in combat operations.