Navy Petty Officer 2nd Class Joe Frank [Ret.] was critically injured when his car was hit by a drunk driver on Interstate 5 in San Diego. Frank is one of 200 wounded service members and veterans expected to compete in the Warrior Games, which start Saturday.
Frank will compete with the 35 members of Team Navy at the games, held at the U.S. Air Force Academy in Colorado Springs ...
The 170 military mothers who were guests at the White House Mother's Day tea Thursday were treated to a surprise visitor - Prince Harry of Great Britain.
The Armed Forces Press Service reported that at the beginning of the event, Prince Harry had been in the State Dining Room, helping several dozen military children make gifts for their moms. His unexpected appearance later in the East Room, where the Mother ...
A military working dog named Cpl. Tick was killed on May 14, 2012 in an improvised explosive device blast in Afghanistan. Cpl Tick's handler, Lance Cpl. Bryan Utrilla, will honor her on the one-year anniversary of her death by placing her dog tags on the Camp Pendleton cross memorial.
Utrilla wrote an email to the blog Battle Rattle, calling Cpl. Tick, a two-year-old black lab, a beloved friend who ...
A Marine Corps investigation found Lance Cpl. John Cagle, 19, was killed in September 2011 when the hydraulic seat in his Light Armored Vehicle malfunctioned and crushed his throat, according to documents obtained by the Marine Corps Times.
Those documents show Cagle was found with a “deep indentation, one inch by one inch, on the back of his neck.” Cagle, deployed in Afghanistan, had been in the process of conducting ...
U.S. Air Force Capt. Colin Merrin of Santee is a step closer to fulfilling his dream of summiting Mount Everest.
Merrin, a GPS satellite operations mission commander, is part of an Air Force team participating in a 50-day journey to climb Mount Everest.
If they summit, USAF Seven Summits Challenge team members would become the first group of active-duty U.S. service members to reach the top of the ...
The California National Guard has played a key role in fighting the fires burning throughout the state. But Major General David Baldwin says the Guard's ability to fight future fires will be hampered by sequestration cuts.
One-fifth of the California National Guard's technicians will be furloughed if sequestration cuts ordered by the Pentagon go through.
In an interview with Bloomberg news, Baldwin said the furloughs ordered by the ...
For the first time in the more than 600 days that Camp Pendleton Marine veteran Amir Hekmati has been held captive in Iran, he was able to send letters to his family in the United States.
Sarah Hekmati, Amir's sister, shared the letters with The Associated Press, saying:
"It's the first time ... we have had any kind of written communication. The letters speak volumes."
Hekmati wrote to his ...
A new Pentagon report shows sexual assault in the military has jumped 35 percent since 2010.
Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel is holding a news conference today to discuss the survey, called the fiscal 2012 Annual Report on Sexual Assault in the Military.
USA Today was provided an advance summary of the report. According to the newspaper's website, roughly one in 16 female service members was the victim of a ...
The Pentagon has identified the five U.S. soldiers killed May 4 when their vehicle hit an improvised explosive device attack.
The fallen soldiers are:
-1st Lt. Brandon J. Landrum, 26, of Lawton, Oklahoma
-Staff Sgt. Francis G. Phillips IV, 28, of Meridian, New York
-Spc. Kevin Cardoza, 19, of Mercedes, Texas,
-Spc. Thomas P. Murach, 22, of Meridian, Idaho
-Spc. Brandon J. Prescott, 24, of Bend, Oregon
All five ...
Two Marines based at Camp Lejeune, Staff Sgt. Eric D. Christian, 39, of Warwick, N.Y., and Cpl. David M. Sonka, 23, of Parker, Colorado, were killed May 4 in an insider attack. Killed alongside them was Sonka's military working dog, Flex.
The Department of Defense reports the two Marines were assigned to 2nd Marine Special Operations Battalion at Camp Lejeune.
According to a casualty report by the NATO ...
Army Staff Sgt. Michael H. Simpson, 30, died May 1 in Landstuhl, Germany of wounds he suffered in an April 27 improvised explosive device attack in Afghanistan.
The Department of Defense reports Simpson was a Green Beret assigned to the 4th Battalion, 1st Special Forces Group (Airborne) at Joint Base Lewis-McChord in Washington.
Michael's widow, Krista Simpson, told the Tacoma News-Tribune her husband was a "badass" who was also ...
Army Spc. Trinidad Santiago Jr., 25, of San Diego, was one of two soldiers killed May 2 in a vehicle accident at Camp Buehring in Kuwait, according to the Department of Defense.
Santiago and Pfc. Charles P. McClure, 21, of Stratford, Oklahoma, were both assigned to 4th Battalion, 42nd Field Artillery Regiment, 1st Brigade Combat Team, 4th Infantry Division at Fort Carson in Colorado.
Air Force Capt. Victoria A. Pinckney, 27, of Palmdale and Tech Sgt. Herman Mackey III, 30, of Bakersfield were killed along with Capt. Mark T. Voss, 27, of Colorado Springs, Colorado when their plane crashed in Kyrgyzstan on May 3, according to the Department of Defense.
All three airmen were assigned to the 93rd Air Refueling Squadron at Fairchild Air Force Base in Washington state.
The USS Anchorage left its homeport of San Diego recently to head to its namesake city for commissioning.
The Navy shot time lapse footage of the Anchorage's departure from San Diego, showing how much work goes into putting a ship to sea. I've posted that video up top.
The Navy will commission the Anchorage on Saturday at a special ceremony. You can click here to watch a live ...
Actor Bradley Cooper will play former Navy SEAL and "American Sniper" Chris Kyle in a new movie to be directed by Stephen Spielberg.
A DreamWorks Studios spokeswoman told the Associated Press that the film will be based on Kyle's bestseller, American Sniper: The Autobiography of the Most Lethal Sniper in U.S. Military History.
Cooper, according to USA Today, owns the film rights to Kyle's book.
A U.S. Air Force KC-135 Stratotanker crashed Friday in northern Kyrgyzstan.
Reuters reports the plane was on its way to Afghanistan
The fate of the three-person crew is not known at this time, but 376th Air Expeditionary Wing officials say emergency response crews are on the scene.
Several witnesses said the plane exploded in midair, according to Reuters, with debris falling over a 4 to 5 kilometer area. The ...
The U.S. Coast Guard and Navy have called off their search for missing British man Luke Stimson - a search that involved the San Diego-based USS Peleliu.
The Peleliu was en route to homeport San Diego when it was diverted to participate in the search.
According to a Coast Guard news release, the Peleliu and other Coast Guard and Navy crews spent more than 50 hours over three days searching ...
The Navy has announced it will charge two Naval diving unit senior leaders with involuntary manslaughter and dereliction of duty in connection with the deaths of two Navy divers in February.
The two divers who died were Navy Diver 1st Class James Reyher, 28, of Caldwell, Ohio, and Navy Diver 2nd Class Ryan Harris, 23, of Gladstone, Missouri. Both Sailors were assigned to Mobile Diving and Salvage Unit 2, based ...
The Navy's very first squadron of drones will be based at Naval Air Station North Island in Coronado.
The base is holding a ceremony Thursday to show off Helicopter Maritime Strike Squadron (HSM) 35, which is made up of two types of helicopters - the human-piloted Sikorsky Multi Mission MH60-R, and the unmanned Fire Scout MQ-8 B.
According to a Naval Air Forces news release:
The squadron, designated the “Magicians ...
A Camp Pendleton Marine was savagely beaten at a Santa Monica nightclub, and police are hoping the public will help them find the man responsible.
The Marine is still recovering from the February assault that disfigured his face and knocked him unconscious. "Ryan" told KCBS-TV he doesn't remember the attack:
“The last thing I remember is being on the dance floor and then I have a flash of waking ...
