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  • NATO Deploys Fighter Jets, Aircraft Carriers To Eastern Europe As Threat Of Russian Invasion Grows

    ANDREW TRUNSKY POLITICAL REPORTER, DailyCaller News Foundations|Updated Jan 24, 2022

    The North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) said Monday that it was deploying fighter jets and aircraft carriers to Eastern Europe as Russia prepares to launch a military invasion into Ukraine. “NATO Allies are putting forces on standby and sending additional ships and fighter jets to NATO deployments in eastern Europe, reinforcing Allied deterrence and defense as Russia continues its military build-up in and around Ukraine,” the alliance said in a statement. Specifics surrounding how many ships and jets would be sent...

  • Lawsuit Announced Against AAV Manufacturer in Service Members' Deaths

    City News Service|Updated Jul 29, 2021

    SAN DIEGO - Attorneys representing the families of nine service members killed in an ocean-training accident near San Clemente Island last summer announced a lawsuit today against the manufacturer of the amphibious-assault vehicle that sank with the men inside. The lawsuit, to be filed on behalf of the families of eight Marines and one Navy sailor who died on July 30, 2020, alleges defects in the AAV's cargo hatch door left the servicemen trapped inside the vehicle with no way...

  • Navy identifies USS Theodore Roosevelt sailor who went overboard

    Updated Dec 14, 2020

    SAN DIEGO (CNS) - U.S. Navy officials Monday, Dec. 14 publicly identified a sailor from the USS Theodore Roosevelt who died after going overboard last week. He was identified as 20-year-old Aviation Ordnanceman Airman Apprentice Ethan Garrett Goolsby of Texas, according to the Navy. His family was notified before the search stopped. Search and rescue efforts began around 7:30 a.m. Thursday when a lookout aboard the Nimitz-class aircraft carrier spotted what appeared to be a person in the water, according to Navy officials....

  • U.S. Navy searching for possible sailor in water off Southern California coast

    Updated Dec 11, 2020

    SAN DIEGO (CNS) - U.S. Navy crews were searching off the coast of Southern California Friday, Dec. 11 for a sailor who may have gone overboard off the USS Theodore Roosevelt. About 7:30 a.m. Thursday, a lookout aboard the Nimitz-class aircraft carrier spotted what appeared to be a person in the water and rescue efforts were started, a statement from the Navy's Third Fleet said. ``Three search and rescue helicopters and a rigid hull inflatable boat were launched in response, and one sailor was unaccounted for during a...

  • Vice Adm. Kenneth Whitesell takes over as Navy 'air boss'

    Updated Oct 2, 2020

    SAN DIEGO (CNS) - Vice Adm. Kenneth Whitesell relieved Vice Adm. DeWolfe Miller III to become the commander of all Naval Air Forces and the Naval Air Force, U.S. Pacific Fleet during a ceremony Friday, Oct. 2 aboard USS Theodore Roosevelt at Naval Air Station North Island. The event was also a retirement ceremony for Miller, who was presented with the Distinguished Service Medal after a career spanning more than 39 years. In his remarks, Miller described his career in the Navy through the perspective of an aircraft carrier...

  • Two active-duty Marines from Camp Pendleton arrested on federal drug charges

    Updated Sep 22, 2020

    LOS ANGELES (CNS) - A pair of active-duty U.S. Marines stationed at Camp Pendleton were arrested Tuesday, Sept. 22 on a federal grand jury indictment charging one of the Marines and three civilians with conspiring to distribute narcotics -- including oxycodone pills laced with fentanyl -- to civilians and members of the Marine Corps, one of whom suffered a fatal drug overdose in May. Lance Cpls. Anthony Ruben Whisenant, 20, and Ryan Douglas White, 22, were expected to make their initial appearances this afternoon in U.S....

  • Army soldiers killed in helicopter crash identified

    Updated Aug 29, 2020

     CORONADO (CNS) - The U.S. Army identified two soldiers Saturday, Aug. 29 who died in a Black Hawk helicopter crash during training on San Clemente Island.    Sgt. Tyler M. Shelton, 22, of San Bernardino, and Staff Sgt. Vincent P. Marketta, 33, of Brick, N.J., died Thursday in the crash. Three other soldiers were injured.    ``The loss of Staff Sgt. Marketta and Sgt. Shelton has left a scar in this regiment that will never completely heal,'' said Col. Andrew R. Graham, commander of the 160th Special Operations Aviation...

  • Report: Warship fire at Naval Base San Diego possibly arson

    Updated Aug 27, 2020

    SAN DIEGO (CNS) - An act of arson may have sparked an explosive fire that tore through the USS Bonhomme Richard at Naval Base San Diego last month, extensively damaging the warship and injuring scores of emergency personnel while raging for four days, it was reported today. Citing anonymous sources, 10News reported that the Naval Criminal Investigative Service has identified a Navy sailor who may have set the blaze intentionally. The sources told the news station that search...

  • Navy SEAL appears in naval base San Diego courtroom on sexual assault charges

    Updated Aug 22, 2020

    SAN DIEGO (CNS) - A San Diego-based Navy SEAL appeared in a military courtroom Friday, Aug. 21 on charges that he sexually assaulted a female sailor in Iraq last year. Special Warfare Operator First Class Adel A. Enayat is accused of committing the assault following a Fourth of July barbecue on base and is facing sexual assault, aggravated assault and battery charges. The charging sheet alleges Enayat sexually assaulted, choked and bit the victim at Al Assad Air Base in Iraq on July 4, 2019. Navy spokesman Brian O' Rourke...

  • Military locates sunken vessel, servicemen's bodies near San Clemente Island

    Updated Aug 4, 2020

    SAN CLEMENTE ISLAND (CNS) - A camera-equipped remotely operated submarine has located an amphibious assault vehicle that sank last week off the coast of San Diego County, killing eight Marines and a Navy sailor, and confirmed the presence of human remains aboard, military officials announced today. The naval Undersea Rescue Command made the discovery near San Clemente Island on Monday, and the Navy ``has expedited the movement of assets'' to recover the bodies of the...

  • Authorities ID 1 Marine killed, 8 presumed dead in training accident

    Updated Aug 3, 2020

       SAN CLEMENTE ISLAND (CNS) - Authorities Monday, Aug. 3 publicly identified one Marine who was killed and eight other service members presumed dead after an amphibious assault vehicle sank during a training mission last week near San Clemente Island.    Lance Cpl. Guillermo S. Perez, 20, of New Braunfels, Texas, was pronounced dead at the scene of the training accident, which occurred around 5:45 p.m. Thursday, July 30 roughly 70 miles off the coast of San Diego,...

  • Military calls off search for missing troops off San Clemente Island

    City News Service|Updated Aug 2, 2020

    SAN CLEMENTE ISLAND (CNS) - Seven Marines and one Navy sailor are presumed dead today after the military called off its search for the troops, who went missing after an amphibious vehicle sank during a training mission Thursday. One additional Marine was rescued, but later died, and two others remain in critical condition, in the aftermath of the incident that occurred 80 miles off the coast of Encinitas. "It is with a heavy heart that I decided to conclude the search and...

  • 1 Marine dead, 8 others missing after training mishap near San Clemente Island

    Updated Jul 31, 2020

       CAMP PENDLETON (CNS) - A search was underway Friday for eight service members who remain missing following a training accident involving an amphibious assault vehicle near San Clemente Island that killed a Camp Pendleton Marine.    The accident happened around 5:45 p.m. Thursday during a training exercise near San Clemente Island, roughly 78 miles off the coast of San Diego, according to Camp Pendleton officials.    An AAV with 15 Marines and one sailor on board...

  • Wrestler sues over injury suffered during Camp Pendleton training camp

    Updated Jul 30, 2020

       SAN DIEGO (CNS) - A former member of the U.S. national wrestling team, who was severely injured during a training camp exercise held at Camp Pendleton, has filed a lawsuit alleging the Marine Corps and USA Wrestling encouraged him and other civilians to take part in a military-style exercise involving weapons that the participants weren't adequately trained to use.    Richard Perry and his wife Gina Cimmino filed the lawsuit Tuesday in San Diego federal court against...

  • Regulators say San Diego ship fire smoke not a health risk

    Updated Jul 28, 2020

    SAN DIEGO (AP) - Smoke from the fire that ravaged a Navy warship in San Diego Bay contained elevated levels of toxins, but air-quality authorities said area residents had little to fear. The San Diego County Air Pollution Control District found that smoke from the USS Bonhomme Richard contained a dozen potentially harmful substances, such as benzene chloromethane and acetonitrile, the San Diego Union-Tribune Reported. "At those levels, over that short period of time, there...

  • Massive blaze aboard Navy ship on San Diego Bay declared extinguished

    Updated Jul 17, 2020

    SAN DIEGO (CNS) - After a four-day battle against a raging fire, the blaze aboard the USS Bonhomme Richard at Naval Base San Diego is believed to be fully extinguished, but crews are working today to verify that no fires are still burning.    As of early Thursday afternoon, ``all known fires'' on the 27,565-ton warship were out, Rear Adm. Philip Sobeck announced.    ``Our fire teams are investigating every space to verify the absence of fire,'' Sobeck said.    He said that process must be complete prior to the start of...

  • Crews make progress against fire on ship at SD Naval base

    Updated Jul 16, 2020

    SAN DIEGO (CNS) - Teams of military and civilian firefighters labored for a fifth day Thursday to subdue a stubborn blaze that has raged aboard the USS Bonhomme Richard at Naval Base San Diego since last weekend. Though the fire has caused extensive destruction to the 27,565-ton vessel, the damage apparently is not irreparable, according to the Navy. Crews were evacuated from the ship late Wednesday night ``out of an abundance of caution'' because the ship began to shift to one side, Navy officials said. By 6 this morning,...

  • Helicopter taking aim at fire aboard Navy ship in San Diego

    Updated Jul 13, 2020

    SAN DIEGO (CNS) - Naval helicopters flew several water-dropping sorties today in their aerial assault on the fire raging on the USS Bonhomme Richard at Naval Base San Diego, and authorities revealed that the blaze caused inflicted mostly minor injuries on 52 sailors and civilians but caused five people to be hospitalized. The two helicopters were from Helicopter Sea Combat Squadron Three, according to the official Twitter account of Naval Surface Forces, U.S. Pacific Fleet,...

  • 21 injured in fire aboard ship at Naval Base San Diego

    Associated Press|Updated Jul 12, 2020

    Twenty-one people suffered minor injuries in an explosion and fire Sunday on board a ship at Naval Base San Diego, military officials said. The blaze was reported shortly before 9 a.m. on USS Bonhomme Richard, said Mike Raney, a spokesman for Naval Surface Force, U.S. Pacific Fleet. Seventeen sailors and four civilians were hospitalized with “non-life threatening injuries,” Raney said in a brief statement. He didn't provide additional details. Previously, officials said...

  • San Diego man sentenced for ID theft that took millions from military members

    Updated Jul 9, 2020

    SAN DIEGO (CNS) - A San Diego man was sentenced Thursday to nearly four years in federal prison for his role in a scheme that took millions of dollars from U.S. servicemembers by utilizing stolen identity information. Trorice Crawford, 33, pleaded guilty last December to one count of conspiracy to launder monetary instruments for his part in facilitating the thefts of funds from thousands of military members' bank accounts. U.S. District Judge Orlando Garcia imposed a 46-month sentence and also ordered Crawford to pay...

  • USS Theodore Roosevelt returns to San Diego from tumultuous deployment

    Updated Jul 9, 2020

       SAN DIEGO (CNS) - The USS Theodore Roosevelt returned to San Diego today, ending a deployment that included a widely publicized COVID-19 outbreak aboard the ship and the contentious firing of its captain.    The Nimitz-class aircraft carrier returned after nearly six months, more than 31,835 nautical miles traveled and an unexpected months-long stopover in Guam, where thousands of sailors were moved off the ship for treatment and quarantine. Its deployment also...

  • USS Nimitz Carrier Strike Group departs San Diego

    Updated Jun 8, 2020

       SAN DIEGO (CNS) - The aircraft carrier USS Nimitz and elements of the Nimitz Carrier Strike Group deployed from San Diego Monday in support of global maritime security operations, Navy officials announced.    Prior to departing, the strike group completed a composite training unit exercise called COMPTUEX, which is designed to fully integrate units of a carrier strike group while testing its ability as a whole to carry out sustained combat operations from the sea. ...

  • New combat ship Kansas City arrives in San Diego

    City News Service|Updated May 24, 2020

       SAN DIEGO (CNS) - The next ship to be commissioned and carry the "Kansas City'' name arrived at its home port in San Diego today, Navy officials said.    The future USS Kansas City arrived at Naval Base San Diego, where the Navy will commission the Independence-variant littoral combat ship on June 20.    ``I am extremely proud of all the hard work the crew has done to complete the sail around and prepare us to officially join the fleet on commissioning day,'' said...

  • Navy report says destroyer captain fired for lying to fleet command

    City News Service|Updated Apr 12, 2020

       SAN DIEGO (CNS) - The captain of the San Diego-based destroyer Decator was removed from command in January after lying to San Diego fleet command about his ship's position, the San Diego Union-Tribune reported today.    According to a Navy investigation, Cmdr. John ``Bob'' Bowen, the Decator's commanding officer, ordered his crew on Sept. 13 not to report to fleet command that the guided-missile destroyer had gone dead in the water, the paper reported.    The ship had...

  • Naval medical center security personnel shoot, injure man who drove past gate

    City News Service|Updated Oct 29, 2019

    SAN DIEGO (CNS) - A 18-year-old transient who drove past a gate at Naval Medical Center San Diego in the Balboa Park area was injured when security personnel fired a shot at his charging dog, but missed, and the bullet instead grazed his ankle, authorities said on Tuesday. The bizarre series of events happened around 8:45 p.m. Monday near the hospital's main gate at Bob Wilson Drive off Florida Drive, according to Navy officials. A man, later identified as Eric Durand of San Diego, was behind the wheel of a pickup truck that...

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