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By PAM KRAGEN | The San Diego Union-Tribune | Published: May 17, 2021 (Tribune News Service) — This fall, the last American troops will leave Afghanistan, ending a 20-year war that involved tens of thousands of troops who trained and deployed from Marine Corps Base Camp Pendleton. Since the 200-square-mile military base was established along the northern border of Oceanside, Calif., in 1942, the city has had a strong and symbiotic relationship with the Marine Corps. But the Corps' economic impact on the Oceanside economy has gradually declined. Over the past two decades, the city's fast-e...

Advertisement One by one, the Marines approached the podium to speak about their brothers-in-arms killed in Sangin, Afghanistan. Each of the 25 men who died with the 3rd Battalion, 5th Marine Regiment during the tour that ended this month was honored Friday at Camp Pendleton by a Marine who knew him best. A memorial for Camp Pendleton Marines on the front page of U-T San Diego April 30, 2011 (U-T) Their voices quavered at times and their happiest memories were undercut by sadness, but the respect and affection they showed for the men who fought at their sides was unwavering. Among the fallen ...

By ANDREW DYER, KRISTINA DAVIS | The San Diego Union-Tribune | Published: April 18, 2021 SAN DIEGO, Calif. (Tribune News Service) — Travis Horr was a sixth-grader in Maine when the Twin Towers fell on 9/11. Ten years later, he was a 21-year-old Marine lance corporal in Afghanistan when the architect of the terrorist attack, Osama Bin Laden, was killed. The endgame seemed to be in sight. "That's what we believed the whole mission was," recalls Horr. But the hunt for bin Laden and defeat of the Taliban turned into a nation-building effort — one that perhaps infantry riflemen were not eq...

Camp Pendleton Marines return to training with AAVs months after deadly accident Copyright 2018 The Associated Press. All rights reserved. Mindaugas Kulbis/AP U.S. Marine Amphibious Assault Vehicles (AAV) take a part in a landing operation during a military Exercise Baltops 2018 at the Baltic Sea near village Nemirseta in Klaipeda district, some 340 kms (211 miles) west north of the capital Vilnius, Lithuania. Lithuania, Monday, June 4, 2018. A major U.S.-led military exercise with 18,000 soldiers from 19 primarily NATO countries has kicked off in the alliance's eastern flank involving Pola...

From 2005 to 2014, U-T photojournalist Nelvin C. Cepeda traveled regularly to Afghanistan embedded with Marines from Camp Pendleton. He looks back on what it was like seeing the war unfold abroad and at home. President Joe Biden’s announcement last week that all remaining U.S. troops will leave Afghanistan by Sept. 11, 2021, left Horr, now 32, buoyed by the possibility of finality — but with an unavoidable sense of déjà vu. “We’ve been here before,” said Horr, the director of government affairs for Iraq and Afghanistan Veterans of America, a national organization that provides res...