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Marine Corps Trials Start Today At Camp Pendleton

More than 300 injured military athletes are at Camp Pendleton today for the the third annual Marine Corps Trials.

During the trials, 50 Marines will be selected for the All-Marine Warrior Games team to compete in the 2013 Wounded Warrior Games.

The U.S. Marine Corps Wounded Warrior Regiment is hosting the trials, which start today and run through March 6, according to a Marine Corps news release.

The athletes ...

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Camp Pendleton Marine Killed In Skydiving Fall ID'ed

The Marine Corps has released the name of the Camp Pendleton Marine killed Tuesday in a skydiving accident. He was Caleb Medley, 26, of Colorado.

As Home Post reported yesterday, Medley fell to his death during a training exercise at Perris Valley Airport.

Buzz Fink said of Skydive San Diego told San Diego television station 10News it has become more common for Pendleton Marines to practice their jumps off base ...

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State Capitol Flags Lowered To Honor Fallen Camp Pendleton Marine

Governor Jerry Brown ordered all flags be flown at half-staff over the State Capitol today in honor of fallen Camp Pendleton Marine Staff Sgt. Jonathan Davis.

As Home Post reported earlier this week, Davis, 34, was killed in Afghanistan on February 22. He died while conducting combat operations in Helmand province, according to the Department of Defense.

Davis was a motor transport operations chief assigned assigned to Headquarters Battalion, 32nd ...

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Camp Pendleton Marine Killed In Skydiving Accident (+Video)

A Camp Pendleton Marine plummeted to his death yesterday in Perris during a skydiving accident.

The Marine was taking part in a training exercise, according to the Los Angeles Times.

Several witnesses of the accident told Los Angeles television station KTLA that the Marine's parachute did not open.

Eric Kazakoff of Western Construction Auctions told the Riverside Press-Enterprise that the Marine landed in his company's 10-acre storage yard ...

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Camp Pendleton Marine Killed In Afghanistan

Camp Pendleton Marine Staff Sgt. Jonathan D. Davis, 34, was killed in Afghanistan on February 22. He died while conducting combat operations in Helmand province, according to the Department of Defense.

Davis was a motor transport operations chief assigned assigned to Headquarters Battalion, 32nd Georgian Liaison Team, Regimental Combat Team 7, 1st Marine Division, I Marine Expeditionary Force at Camp Pendleton.

The DoD identifies Davis as being from Kayenta, Arizona ...

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Camp Pendleton Marine Arrested For Killing Navy Veteran

A Camp Pendleton Marine corporal named Kevin Albert Richard Coset has been arrested in connection with the murder of Navy veteran Alvin Bulaoro.

San Diego County Sheriff's Capt. Duncan Fraser told the Associated Press that Coset, 23, was taken into custody Friday night at Camp Pendleton. He is being held without bail at the Vista Detention Facility.

Bulaoro, 24, was last seen alive on December 21. His family reported ...

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Camp Pendleton Wife Named Military Spouse Of The Year Finalist

Military Spouse magazine announced this morning the 18 finalists for its 2013 Military Spouse of the Year award - and Kristine Schellhaas of Camp Pendleton is on the list.

Going high tech, the magazine sent out a text message just a few moments ago to make the big announcement.

Schellhaas is the founder of the website USMC Life, which gives Marine Corps families a guide to all Marine bases. Schellhaas describes ...

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Camp Pendleton Marine Gets Life Sentence For Killing Fellow Marine

A military judge sentenced Lance Cpl. Darren Evans to life in prison on Thursday for the brutal murder of his roommate, Lance Cpl. Mario Arias, reports Camp Pendleton Patch.

A spokesman for MCAS Miramar, where Evans is imprisoned, told Patch that in addition to his sentence of life with the possibility of parole...

...[Evans] will be reduced from lance corporal to private. He will also forfeit all pay, [and] will ...

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Fallen Camp Pendleton Marine Who Wrote Goodbye Letter To Be Awarded Bronze Star On Friday

The military will posthumously award fallen Marine Sgt. William Stacey the Bronze Star at a Camp Pendleton ceremony Friday, according to 1st Marine Public Affairs.

The award citation mentions Stacey's multiple acts of exemplary bravery between September 1, 2011 and January 31, 2012 as the reason for his commendation.

Stacey was killed by an improvised explosive device on January 31, 2012.

1st Marine Division Commanding General Maj. Gen. Ronald ...

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Funeral Held For Former Pendleton Marine Believed Killed By Dorner (Video)

Thousands turned out today for the funeral of Marine veteran and slain Riverside Police Officer Michael Crain at Grove Community Church in Riverside.

Law enforcement officials say Crain was shot to death February 7 by rogue ex-LAPD cop Christopher Dorner. Crain was on patrol at the time with a trainee officer, and parked at a stoplight.

As Home Post reported earlier this week, Crain joined the Marine Corps about a ...

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Deployed Military Women At Increased Risk For Post-Childbirth Depression

Military women who face combat in deployment after having a baby face an increased risk of depression, according to a new study from San Diego State University, Naval Hospital Camp Pendleton, and Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences in Bethesda.

The study finds most of the 16,000 service women on active duty who have babies each year return to service 6 weeks after giving birth, and can be ...

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Female Camp Pendleton Marine To Be Guest At State Of The Union

Marine Corps Sgt. Sheena Adams of Vista, California will be a guest of first lady Michelle Obama at tonight's State of the Union address.

According to a Department of Defense new release, Adams was in Afghanistan from September 2010 to April 2011 in direct support of the 1st Battalion, 8th Marines.

After returning to the United States, became part of the advisor training cell for the Camp Pendleton-based 1st ...

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Alleged Dorner Victim Was Former Camp Pendleton Marine

Michael Crain, the Riverside Police Department officer allegedly shot to death by Christopher Dorner, was a former Camp Pendleton Marine.

According to a Riverside PD news release, Crain joined the Marines about a year after graduating Redlands High School:

Crain then served two deployment tours in Kuwait as a rifleman in the 15th Marine Expeditionary Unit, 3rd Battalion, 1st Marines. He was a squad leader, and was promoted to the ...

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Camp Pendleton To Host Warrior Games Trials

More than 300 injured military athletes will head to Camp Pendleton next month to compete in the the third annual Marine Corps Trials for the 2013 Wounded Warrior Games, according to a Marine Corps news release.

The U.S. Marine Corps Wounded Warrior Regiment will host the trials from March 1-6. During the trials the Regiment will select 50 Marines for the 2013 All-Marine Warrior Games team.

The athletes are ...

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Camp Pendleton Marine Pleads Guilty To Killing Fellow Marine

Camp Pendleton Marine Lance Cpl. Darren Evans has pleaded guilty in the 2011 beating death of his roommate, Lance Cpl. Mario Arias.

Camp Pendleton Patch reports Evans told a military judge during a plea hearing this week that although he did not remember committing the crime, the overwhelming amount of forensic evidence (including his fingerprints on the murder weapon) persuaded him that he was the perpetrator:

“Based on that, I ...

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