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Super PAC forms to fight defense cuts
SAN DIEGO -- A political action committee was started Tuesday in San Diego to fight proposed defense budget cuts. Organizers of the Fight 4 America super PAC unveiled three television commercials that focus on what they believe is deficient defense...
Tags: Dmitry Medvedev, Defense, National Security, International Military Interventions, National Defense Authorization Act
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Escondido salutes hometown heroes
FOX5 San DiegoESCONDIDO , Calif. – A 26-year old Marine who lost his legs to a roadside bomb in Afghanistan is getting a salute. The incident happen in November 2011, but now Cpl. Michael Fox is back on American soil in San Diego learning how to walk again at the...Tags: Emergency Incidents, Explosions, Afghanistan
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Navy plans big expansion in San Diego
Fox 5 San Diego ReporterSAN DIEGO -- The U.S. Navy announced plans to expand its fleet in San Diego Monday, but backtracked from anticipated specifics before the City Council. The Pentagon recently announced a shift of focus for U.S. military forces toward Asia and the...Tags: U.S. Department of Defense, U.S. Military, Pacific Ocean, The Pentagon
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Local soldier killed in Afghan chopper crash
SAN DIEGO -- A 27-year-old San Diego soldier was among four killed in an April 19 helicopter crash in Afghanistan, the Pentagon said Tuesday. Chief Warrant Officer Nicholas S. Johnson of San Diego was killed in the crash of a a UH-60 Black Hawk in...
Tags: Disasters and Accidents, The Pentagon, Accidental Death
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Using pigs for corpsmen training to continue
Los Angeles TimesSAN DIEGO - A property owner in a rural eastern San Diego County can continue allowing a private contractor to use pigs for "live-tissue" training to help teach Marines and Navy corpsmen how to treat combat wounds, county land use officials have ruled....Tags: Services and Shopping, General Contracting
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Marine faces dismissal for criticizing Obama
Los Angeles TimesSAN DIEGO - A 26-year-old sergeant and Iraq veteran is in the process of being dismissed from the Marine Corps after making "political statements" about the commander-in-chief on Facebook. Such comments are considered detrimental to "good order and...Tags: Leon Panetta, Facebook, U.S. Marine Corps, Barack Obama
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7 plead guilty to defrauding Navy of millions
SAN DIEGO -- Four Navy officials and three defense contractors pleaded guilty Wednesday to conspiracy and other charges stemming from a wide-ranging fraud and corruption scheme at the North Island Naval Air Station. Defense contractors Michael Graven,...
Tags: Trials, Prosecution, Defense, Justice System, Lawyers
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Camp Pendleton Marine killed in Afghanistan
CAMP PENDLETON, Calif. -- Marine based at Camp Pendleton was killed in combat in Afghanistan's Helmand Province Friday, military officials said Saturday.
Cpl. Roberto Cazarez, 24, was assigned to the 1st Marine Division's Light Armored Reconnaissance...Tags: Afghanistan
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Marines gather to 'Honor the Dead' at Pendleton
Los Angeles TimesCAMP PENDLETON, Calif. - His voice quivering, Marine Cpl. Joseph Orr spoke Thursday of the death of his friend and fellow scout-sniper in Afghanistan. “I broke down in tears when I heard about his death,” Orr said. “It hurt, and it&...Tags: Bombings, Human Interest, Grateful Dead (music group), Afghanistan
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