Two Navy dolphins trained to search for underwater explosives made a surprising discovery off the coast of Coronado. Using their keen dolphin sonar, "Ten" and "Spetz" found an extremely rare 19th century Howell torpedo.

Mike Rothe of the The Space and Naval Warfare Systems Command told the Los Angeles Times it was Ten who first identified the unusual object under water. A week later, Spetz also identified the object.

After ...

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 ...

Navy Chief Petty Officer Christian Michael Pike, 31, died in Landstuhl, Germany on March 13 from injuries he suffered in Afghanistan on March 10, according to the Department of Defense.

Pike was assigned to a West Coast-based Naval Special Warfare unit, and the Los Angeles Times reports he deployed to Afghanistan with a Coronado-based Navy SEAL team.

Pike grew up in Peoria, Arizona. His mother, Diana, works for the Fox ...

Operation Homefront announced its finalists for the 2013 Military Child of the Year® Award, and 14-year-old Jackson Seniff from Coronado has made the list.

Operation Homefront named the top 5 finalists from each branch of service last Friday. The winner for each service branch will be named March 5.

The five recipients of that award will get $5,000, and a free flight to Washington, D.C. (with mom, dad ...

From Navy Public Affairs Support Element West:

Sailors assigned to the Helicopter Maritime Strike Squadron (HSM) 41 "Seahawks" celebrated 170,000 operational flight hours without a Class A mishap Jan. 8.

A Class A mishap is defined as an incident with a total cost of more than $1 million, destroyed aircraft, fatal injury or total disability. HSM-41, which began service as Helicopter Anti-Submarine Light 41 in 1983, has accumulated the ...

From Camp Pendleton Public Affairs:

“Putt! Putt! Putt! Putt!”

Imitating the sound of a Curtiss Condor’s engines failing, Frank Baron Jr. mimics the tumbling motions of the aircraft falling from the sky. His hands rush to his shoulders as if grabbing for parachute straps.

“I thought, ‘This is it,’ and then all of a sudden, brrrr!” he said, describing the sound of the engines returning to life as he ...

Four Navy helicopter crew members are in the hospital this morning after their MH-60R Seahawk helicopter made a “hard landing” at Naval Air Station North Island in San Diego.

According to the Associated Press, the Seahawk was taking part in routine training at NAS North Island when it made the hard landing at about 11 p.m. Wednesday night.

All four crew members suffered injuries that required hospitalization as a ...

Four former Navy officials and three defense contractors were sentenced to prison and probation terms Tuesday for their admitted roles in a wide-ranging fraud and corruption scheme at Naval Air Station North Island.

U.S. District Judge Larry Burns handed down the sentences in federal court in downtown San Diego. The defendants pleaded guilty in March to taking part in a conspiracy in which defense contractors provided Navy officials with ...

A change in leadership of naval air forces is scheduled to take place at Coronado's Naval Air Station North Island today.

Vice Adm. David Buss is scheduled to relieve Vice Adm. Allen Myers, who is moving to the Pentagon to be deputy chief of naval operations for integration of capabilities and resources.

Buss, who graduated with distinction from the United States Naval Academy in 1978, will have the dual ...

Military homecomings are always special, but there's something particularly poignant about a service member returning from deployment to meet his child for the first time.

Posted above is video of Petty Officer Love arriving at San Diego International Airport to reunite with his wife Kandace, and to meet his newborn daughter. Love had been away on a year-long deployment.

According to "over30pumas" who shot and posted the video, MA2 ...

The author of the bestselling book “No Easy Day: The Firsthand Account of the Mission That Killed Osama bin Laden,” has also apparently shared his insider knowledge of special operations tactics with the video game industry, according to the Los Angeles Times.

The newspaper reports Former Navy SEAL Mark Bissonnette was one of several special ops members who acted as consultants to Electronic Arts, the developer of "Medal of Honor ...

From Navy Public Affairs Support Element West:

The Maritime Museum of San Diego welcomed Swift Boat P24 to be restored and operated as a new addition to its collection of historic naval vessels, Sept. 18.

The craft's addition will serve as a tribute to the sacrifices of service members who fought in the Vietnam War and other campaigns, as well as a tool to educate visitors with an interest ...

The USNS Mercy is returning home to San Diego tomorrow after five months at sea. The hospital ship with a crew of 1,200 participated in Pacific Partnership 2012, providing humanitarian aid to countries in Southeast Asia, according to the Department of Defense:

With the Military Sealift Command hospital ship as their lead platform during visits to Indonesia, the Philippines, Vietnam and Cambodia, they conducted more than 900 surgeries, evaluated ...

"Not on my watch, not on my ship, not in my Navy."

Those are the words of USS New Orleans Cmdr. Dennis Jacko, who announced this week that 16 of his sailors have been busted for using the designer drug Spice. According to USS New Orleans Public Affairs, one Sailor has already been kicked out of the Navy with an other than honorable discharge. The other fifteen Sailors have pending ...