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SAN DIEGO (AP) — The U.S. chief of naval operations on Tuesday denied a request for clemency and upheld a military jury's sentence that will reduce the rank of a decorated Navy SEAL convicted of posing with a dead Islamic State captive in Iraq in 2017. Adm. Mike Gilday made the decision after carefully reviewing the trial transcripts and the clemency request by the lawyers of Edward Gallagher, said Cmdr. Nate Christensen, spokesman for Gilday, in a statement. Gallagher's lawyer, Timothy Parlatore, said they are d...
WASHINGTON (AP) — Military suicides surged this year to a record high among active duty troops, continuing a deadly trend that Pentagon officials say is frustrating and they are struggling to counter. The Army, Navy and Marine Corps all saw the rate of suicides go up as well as the overall numbers, with only the Air Force showing a decrease, according to data released by the Pentagon Thursday. Suicides among members of the Reserves and the National Guard also grew. The difficulties involved in identifying service members with...
CAMP PENDLETON - The Marine Corps officially announced charges on Friday, Sept. 20 against 13 Marines for alleged misconduct, including accusations they smuggled undocumented immigrants and committed drug-related offenses. The Marines -- detained in July -- will face military court proceedings for alleged transportation of humans, as well as failure to obey an order, drunkenness, endangerment, larceny and perjury, according to a Marine Corps statement. Two of the Marines, Lance Cpl. Byron D. Law and Lance Cpl. David J....
PHOENIX (AP) — An Arizona family is searching for a U.S. Marine who left for Camp Pendleton on Monday but never arrived at the base. Stacy Wallace says her 20-year-old son, Job (JOHB) Wallace, loves the Marines, was recently promoted and was excited to get back to Pendleton after a three-day leave. She says he was last seen leaving a friend's house in Surprise, Arizona around 9 p.m. Monday. A Surprise police spokesman says officers took a report and have turned the matter over to the Naval Criminal Investigative Service. N...
SAN DIEGO - The ride-hailing company Lyft announced an expansion on Wednesday, Aug. 21 of its pilot program at Camp Pendleton that streamlines access to the U.S. Marine Corps base for military members, their families, and civilians who work at the military installation. Lyft launched the pilot program in collaboration with Marine Corps Community Services last year to make it easier for people living on the base to book a ride with a company like Lyft or Uber, which previously required security clearance to enter the base....
SAN DIEGO - The U.S. Navy announced a change of command on Friday, Aug. 16 aboard the USS Scranton, a Los Angeles-class fast attack submarine homeported at Naval Base Point Loma. Cmdr. Dave Latta took over as the ship's commander during the Aug. 15 ceremony, relieving Cmdr. Aaron Peterson, who has overseen the ship since May 2017. During Peterson's tenure as the ship's commander, the Scranton deployed for the first time in more than four years and deployed to the western Pacific for the first time ever. "I couldn't be more...
CAMP PENDLETON (CNS) - Sixteen Marines were arrested on Thursday, July 25 at Camp Pendleton on suspicion of crimes ranging from human smuggling to drug offenses, military officials said. Naval Criminal Investigative Service agents took the suspects into custody during a battalion-wide formation at the northern San Diego County military installation about 7:30 a.m., said 1st Lt. Cameron Edinburgh, a spokesman for the 1st Marine Division. The arrestees' names and details on the allegations against them were not immediately...
SAN DIEGO - Three more service members -- two Marines and one Navy sailor -- were taken into custody in connection with a criminal probe into human smuggling and drug offenses that led to the arrests of 16 Marines at Camp Pendleton, investigators said. Naval Criminal Investigative Service agents took 16 Marines into custody Thursday morning during a battalion-wide roll-call formation at the northern San Diego County military installation, according to Marine Corps officials. The arrestees range in rank from E-2 to E-4 and...
CAMP PENDLETON - NBC 7 has reported that two Camp Pendleton Marines were caught attempting to transport three undocumented immigrants near Tecate on July 3. NBC reported that the "undocumented immigrants told border agents they had agreed to pay the Marines $8,000 to take them north from the border to Los Angeles, eventually intending to head to New Jersey. U.S. Border Patrol agents arrested Lance Corporals Byron Law II and David Salazar-Quintero were arraigned on a felony charge of transporting undocumented immigrants for...
SAN DIEGO - The USS Charleston, a littoral combat ship, will open for public visits at the Broadway Pier this week. The visit, with public tours available from June 28 to 30, will allow members of the public to tour the ship and speak with the ship's sailors. The Charleston is homeported in San Diego and is the 16th littoral combat ship to enter the fleet. The ship is designed to operate in near-shore environments as well as in the open ocean and is capable of combating coastal threats such as submarines, mines and swarming...
SAN DIEGO - Jury selection is scheduled to begin on Monday, June 17 in the trial of a Navy SEAL accused of fatally stabbing a wounded teenage ISIS fighter in Iraq, as well as shooting two civilians and firing on numerous others. Special Operations Chief Edward Gallagher, 40, faces life in prison if convicted of murdering the teen in May 2017, as well as shooting a male and female civilian, and shooting at an unknown number of other civilians later that year in Mosul, Iraq. The highly decorated veteran is also accused of...
WASHINGTON, D.C. - According to a press release from the Unites States Marine Corps, Lt. Gen. David H. Berger, Commanding General, Marine Corps Combat Development Command and Deputy Commandant for Combat Development and Integration, was confirmed by the Senate to become the USMC's 38th Commandant of the Marine Corps on Wednesday, June 45. The confirmation awarded Berger his fourth star to the rank of general and he will replace Gen. Robert B. Neller in July at the Marine...
SAN DIEGO - A pair of U.S. Navy guided-missile destroyer ships returned to their San Diego homeport after a deployment to the Indo-Pacific and Middle East. The USS Spruance and USS Stockdale, part of the John C. Stennis Carrier Strike Group and homeported in the Navy's 3rd Fleet, were deployed to areas that are generally overseen by the Navy's 5th and 7th Fleets. Ships in the strike group left their respective ports last October and November, collaborating with international allies to improve relations and combat readiness...
SAN DIEGO - Military authorities publicly identified a 24-year-old U.S. Marine killed this week in a Camp Pendleton training accident. 1st Lt. Hugh C. McDowell, a platoon commander assigned to 1st Light Armored Reconnaissance Battalion, 1st Marine Division, was fatally injured about 9 a.m. Thursday when an armored vehicle overturned at the northern San Diego County USMC station. Six other Marines suffered minor injuries in the crash. McDowell, a native of Washington, D.C., accepted his commission as a Marine Corps officer in...
CAMP PENDLETON - One Marine was killed and six others injured on Thursday, May 9 when a light armored vehicle overturned during training exercises at Camp Pendleton, authorities said. The crash, involving personnel with 1st Light Armored Reconnaissance Battalion, 1st Marine Division, occurred about 9 a.m., according to USMC officials. The deceased Marine's identity was withheld pending family notification. The others were hospitalized for treatment of minor injuries. "Officials are investigating the circumstances of the...
SAN DIEGO - Military officials publicly identified a U.S. Marine who was fatally injured in a weekend training accident at Camp Pendleton. Staff Sgt. Joshua Braica, 29, was behind the wheel of a MRZR tactical vehicle that overturned Saturday at the military station north of Oceanside, according to Maj. Nicholas Mannweiler of U.S. Marine Corps Forces, Special Operations Command. Two other Marines suffered minor injuries in the crash. Braica, a critical-skills operator with 1st Marine Raider Battalion, was airlifted to Scripps...
SAN DIEGO - Interior Communications Specialist 1st Class Nick Natelli has been named the Naval Surface Forces Pacific 2018 Sailor of the Year, U.S. Navy officials announced on Monday, March 11. Navy officials praised Natelli for his resilience to adversity throughout his 19-year Naval career. Most notably, Natelli lost his security clearance in his last semester at Old Dominion University's Seaman-to-Admiral program and was dropped from the program while dealing with a divorce. Natelli is currently serving on the USS...
CAMP PENDLETON - Rescue teams were searching for a Camp Pendleton Marine who missed his return date from a skiing and hiking trip in the Sierras. The Marine, identified as 1st Lt. Michael Kraft, began his trip on the Sierra High Route on Feb. 23 at the Kearsage Pass trailhead west of Independence in Inyo County, according to a tweet from the 1st Marines Division. Kraft's journey was scheduled to end on March 5 in Bridgeport, north of Mono Lake, but he never showed up. The Inyo, Mono and Fresno county sheriff's offices were...
SAN DIEGO - A former U.S. Navy captain who accepted money from a foreign defense contractor as part of a wide-ranging corruption scandal was sentenced to six months in federal custody. Jeffrey Breslau, previously director of public affairs for the U.S. Pacific Fleet, pleaded guilty last year to a conflict of interest charge for surreptitiously assisting Leonard Glenn "Fat Leonard'' Francis and his Singapore-based ship husbanding company, Glenn Defense Marine Asia, in Francis' relations with top Navy brass. Prosecutors say...
SAN DIEGO - A former U.S. Navy captain pleaded guilty to criminal conflict-of-interest charges and a former U.S. Navy master chief was sentenced on Tuesday, Nov. 13 to 17 months in federal prison for their roles in an expansive corruption and fraud investigation involving foreign defense contractor Leonard Glenn "Fat Leonard'' Francis and his Singapore-based ship husbanding company, Glenn Defense Marine Asia. Former U.S. Navy Capt. Jeffrey Breslau, 52, appeared in U.S. District Court in San Diego and admitted that while he...
SAN DIEGO - More than 1,000 Marines from Marine Corps Base Camp Pendleton were deployed to the U.S.-Mexico border on Thursday, Nov. 8 to support U.S. Customs and Border Protection and the Department of Homeland Security in anticipation of a caravan of Central American migrants headed for the border. The deployment of 1,100 Camp Pendleton Marines is part of the federal government's effort to stop the caravan, estimated to be more than 600 miles from the nearest border crossing. The Pentagon originally dubbed the operation...
SAN DIEGO - California Sens. Kamala Harris and Dianne Feinstein sent a letter on Monday, Nov. 5 to Defense Secretary James Mattis and Lincoln Military Housing, calling for improved housing conditions at the Camp Pendleton Marine Corps base. A Nov. 1 report by Reuters detailed multiple instances of mold, rodent infestation, leaks and other housing issues at military bases across the country, including Camp Pendleton. Lincoln Military Housing controls most of the base's 7,900 housing units. "We are deeply concerned and disappoi...
SAN DIEGO - The San Diego County Water Authority announced it will cease work on a seawater desalination plant at Camp Pendleton because of excessive permitting and cost hurdles by the State Lands Commission. The Water Authority's Board of Directors approved a $4.05 million contract to develop the desalination pilot facility in 2015, with additional funding from state and federal agencies. However, the necessity for the plant has decreased as local municipalities like the City of San Diego have developed their own water purif...
SAN DIEGO - A Navy SEAL is being detained at Marine Corps Air Station Miramar in connection with the 2017 execution of a detainee in Iraq, according to a Navy Times article. SEAL officials told the Navy Times that the chief special warfare operator has not been charged with a crime, but Naval Criminal Investigative Service is investigating. The Navy Times did not identify the SEAL. "A service member currently assigned to a Naval Special Warfare unit is under investigation by NCIS for professional misconduct while deployed to...
SAN DIEGO - The search and rescue mission for a sailor assigned to the USS Lake Erie who failed to report for morning duty has concluded after four days, the Navy announced today. The crew on the USS Lake Erie, a Ticonderoga-class guided-missile cruiser homeported in San Diego, performed man-overboard procedures after the sailor failed to report at 7 a.m. Sunday. The ship was conducting routine training operations in the eastern Pacific Ocean with the John C. Stennis Carrier Strike Group. Seven U.S. Navy ships along with...